glowworm

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Alternative forms

• glow-worm

Noun

glowworm (plural glowworms)

1. 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.

   "The Glow-worm shews the Matin to be near, And gins to pale his uneffectual fire."[1]

Translations

beetle

• Basque: ipurtargi (eu)
• Catalan: lluerna (ca) f
• Chamicuro: puulo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螢火蟲 (cmn), 萤火虫 (cmn) (yínghuǒchóng)

• Esperanto: lampiro (eo)
• Finnish: kiiltomato (fi)
• French: ver luisant (fr) m
• Galician: vagalume (gl) m, lucecú (gl) m

• German: Glühwürmchen (de) n, Leuchtkäfer (de) m
• Ido: lampiro (io)
• Japanese: グローワーム (ja) (gurōwāmu), ツチボタル (ja) (tsuchibotaru)
• Jèrriais: vèrpeu m
• Low German: Glimmerworm (nds) m
• Portuguese: vaga-lume (pt)
• Romanian: licurici (ro)
• Russian: светляк (ru) (svetlják) m , жук-светляк (ru) (žuk-svetlják) m 
• Spanish: luciérnaga (es) f

See also

• firefly