GLOW-WORM


Meaning of GLOW-WORM in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It was an in-dwelling quality - the light of the tiny glow-worm , the light dancing in the waves.

Most had already lit their fore-and-aft lamps, which twinkled like glow-worms in the gathering dusk.

Since glow-worms, fireflies, electric eels and many fish exhibit a similar phenomenon, the statement is not unrealistic.

The movement of its antlers jerked Guy's hand, sending his cigarette arcing through the air like a flying glow-worm .

They were glow-worms, the first I had ever seen.

Who remembers night sorties to see Yorkshire glow-worms and Gypsy Hill badgers?

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