Glow Worm

Word GLOW WORM
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Definitions and meanings of "Glow Worm"

What do we mean by glow worm?

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.

A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.

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The word "glow-worm" in example sentences

Some sayings seem to contradict each other, with one rhyme claiming that "When the glow-worm lights her lamp, the air is always damp", while another says that "When the glow-worm glows, dry, hot weather follows". ❋ Unknown (2011)

When I was little, the thing I wanted to do most was visit the glow-worm caves -- although I admit I actually got the idea that there was only one glow-worm cave. ❋ Karenhealey (2010)

The glow-worm is named both well and badly: although it is a kind of beetle, not a worm, it certainly does glow. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ms. KILGORE and Mr. FRISHBERG: (Singing) Glow little glow-worm, turn the key on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. FRISHBERG and Ms. KILGORE (Singing) Glow little glow-worm, glow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ms. KILGORE: (Singing) Glow little glow-worm, glow and glimmer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lead us on to love Mr. FRISHBERG: (Singing) Glow little glow-worm, fly of fire. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Displays of Tasmanian glow-worm Arachnocampa tasmaniensis can be seen at several locations, particularly at Exit and Entrance caves. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And yet — and yet — I would rally the matter off, Alan; but in dark nights even the glow-worm becomes an object of lustre, and to one plunged in my uncertainty and ignorance, the slightest gleam that promises intelligence is interesting. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The stars may be the canopy over her head, the glow-worm in the night's cold grass be the fire at her feet, but home is where she is; and for a noble woman it stretches far around her, — better than houses with ceilings of cedar, or with paintings of the masters, shedding its quiet light for those who else were homeless. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This light from heaven is strong, clear, and pure; carries its own demonstration with it: and we may as naturally take a glow-worm to assist us to discover the sun, as to examine the celestial ray by our dim candle, reason. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One night in April, after a prolonged drought, just as the household were retiring to rest, Mr. Forrest looked out of the window, and saw a light in the bush scarcely bigger or brighter than a glow-worm. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When I parted the boughs and looked into the dark thicket, there was a glow-worm shining like the visible spirit of God upon the murdered child. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They stood all about him as he sat and waked, and down the glade towards him, down a glow-worm avenue and fronted by a star, came at once that Fairy Lady who is the chief personage of his memory and tale. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

The semi-Norman arches of the nave, with their multitudinous notchings, were still visible by the light from the tower window, but the lower portion of the building was in obscurity, except where the feeble glimmer from the candle of the organist spread a glow-worm radiance around. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Down below it stretched, dimly geometrical in the darkness, picked out at regular intervals by glow-worm spangles of light. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

Yet despite claims that his own writing days were behind him—“I do not write—I have lived too long near Lord Byron and the sun has extinguished the glow-worm”—he wrote prolifically. ❋ Diana Killian (2006)

To me, at least, she shone clear amidst the muddle of his story like a glow-worm in ❋ Herbert George (2006)

A good many fishes in the brook, and many cray-fish; one of the last with a queer glow-worm head. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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