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Word | Firefly |
French Meaning | luciole |
tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots / nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs / Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae. / a soft-bodied beetle related to the glowworm, the winged male and flightless female of which both have luminescent organs. The light is chiefly produced as a signal between the sexes, especially in flashes., | |
Usage | ⇒ Fireflies are normally seen at night in jungles ⇒ Later lab experiments showed that by flashing an artificial light at a firefly you could speed up its rhythm, you could slow it down, make it flash a little later than it would otherwise. |
Synonyms | lightning bug, fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctiluca, glowworm, glow-worm, fly, ant, aphid, bedbug, bee, beetle, blink, blinking, blowfly, bluebottle, bookworm, botfly, butterfly, candle fly, centipede, |
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