glowworm

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families  or  that gives out a green light from its abdomen.
 * 2) * 1604,, The Alexandraean Tragedie, Act V, Scene 2, in The Monarchicke Tragedies, London: Ed. Blount, 1607,
 * Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine,
 * That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe.
 * 1) * 1819,, “The Waggoner” Canto 1, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820, p. 7,
 * Confiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night
 * Propitious to your earth-born light!
 * 1)  A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus  that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.
 * Confiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night
 * Propitious to your earth-born light!
 * 1)  A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus  that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.
 * 1)  A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus  that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.

Derived terms

 * common glowworm ()

Translations

 * Arabic:, حَبَاحِب
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: licurici
 * Basque: ipurtargi
 * Belarusian: святляк
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: puulo
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: орине
 * Esperanto: lampiro
 * Estonian: jaaniuss
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , Johanniswürmchen , Johanniskäfer
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λαμπυρίς, πυγολαμπίς
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: tulimato, jaanimato, hiirenvalkia
 * Japanese: グローワーム, ツチボタル
 * Khmer:
 * Latin: lampyris
 * Low German: Glimmerworm
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: titiwai, pūrātoke
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: vèrpeu
 * Ottoman Turkish: آتش بوجكی, یلدز بوجكی
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, жук-светля́к
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: magïen