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glowworm

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Definitions

  1. the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly

Word origin

From Middle English glouworm; equivalent to glow + worm. Compare cognate German Glühwurm; compare also firefly, lightning bug, and lanternfly.

Used in a sentence

  • The glowworm shows the matin to be near And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.
  • Glories (like glowe-wormes) a farre off, shine bright, But look’d to neere, haue neither heate, nor light.
  • Ye Glo-worms, whose officious Flame To wandring Mowers shows the way, That in the Night have lost their aim, And after foolish Fires do stray;

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