glowworm

== English == === Alternative forms === glow-worm === Etymology === From Middle English glouworm; equivalent to glow +‎ worm. Compare cognate German Glühwurm; compare also firefly, lightning bug, and lanternfly. === Pronunciation === === Noun === glowworm (plural glowworms) 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. Coordinate term: glow fly 1604, William Alexander, The Alexandraean Tragedie, Act V, Scene 2, in The Monarchicke Tragedies, London: Ed. Blount, 1607,[1] Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine, That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe. 1819, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 1, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820, p. 7,[3] Confiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night Propitious to your earth-born light! (Australia, New Zealand) A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow. ==== Derived terms ==== common glowworm (Lampyris noctiluca) ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === firefly === Further reading === glowworm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia