Glowworm
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Glowworm is a noun meaning The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.
Meaning
The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.
More Meanings
- (Australia, New Zealand) A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.
Example Sentences
Glories (like glowe-wormes) a farre off, shine bright, But look’d to neere, haue neither heate, nor light.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.
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;
Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glowworms down the aisles of the organplaying wood.
Word Forms
- glowworms
- glow-worm
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include glow-worm, gloworm, glassworm, firefly, phengodid, basketworm.
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