The butterfly is a winged caterpillar. The beetle covers its wings with cases. The glowworm shines at night.
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Glowworm
Synonyms for "glowworm" (32 found)
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54 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λαμπυρίς noun (beetle larva or female)
- πυγολαμπίς noun (beetle larva or female)
Arabic
2 entries- حَبَاحِب noun (beetle larva or female)
- يَرَاع noun (beetle larva or female)
Aromanian
1 entries- licurici noun (beetle larva or female)
Basque
1 entries- ipurtargi noun (beetle larva or female)
Belarusian
1 entries- святляк noun (beetle larva or female)
Catalan
1 entries- lluerna noun (beetle larva or female)
Chamicuro
1 entries- puulo noun (beetle larva or female)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 螢火蟲 /萤火虫 noun (beetle larva or female)
Dutch
1 entries- glimworm noun (beetle larva or female)
Erzya
1 entries- орине noun (beetle larva or female)
Esperanto
1 entries- lampiro noun (beetle larva or female)
Estonian
1 entries- jaaniuss noun (beetle larva or female)
Finnish
1 entries- kiiltomato noun (beetle larva or female)
French
1 entries- ver luisant noun (beetle larva or female)
Galician
2 entries- lucecú noun (beetle larva or female)
- vagalume noun (beetle larva or female)
German
4 entries- Glühwürmchen noun (beetle larva or female)
- Johanniskäfer noun (beetle larva or female)
- Johanniswürmchen noun (beetle larva or female)
- Leuchtkäfer noun (beetle larva or female)
Hungarian
1 entries- szentjánosbogár noun (beetle larva or female)
Ido
1 entries- lampiro noun (beetle larva or female)
Ingrian
3 entries- hiirenvalkia noun (beetle larva or female)
- jaanimato noun (beetle larva or female)
- tulimato noun (beetle larva or female)
Japanese
2 entries- グローワーム noun (beetle larva or female)
- ツチボタル noun (beetle larva or female)
Latin
1 entries- lampyris noun (beetle larva or female)
Low German
1 entries- Glimmerworm noun (beetle larva or female)
Malayalam
1 entries- മിന്നാമിനുങ്ങ് noun (beetle larva or female)
Māori
2 entries- pūrātoke noun (beetle larva or female)
- titiwai noun (beetle larva or female)
Norman
1 entries- vèrpeu noun (beetle larva or female)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آتش بوجكی noun (beetle larva or female)
- یلدز بوجكی noun (beetle larva or female)
Portuguese
1 entries- vaga-lume noun (beetle larva or female)
Romanian
1 entries- licurici noun (beetle larva or female)
Russian
2 entries- жук-светля́к noun (beetle larva or female)
- светля́к noun (beetle larva or female)
Spanish
1 entries- luciérnaga noun (beetle larva or female)
Tamil
4 entries- அலத்தி noun (beetle larva or female)
- கண்ணாம் பூச்சி noun (beetle larva or female)
- கீடமணி noun (beetle larva or female)
- சிலமீலிகை noun (beetle larva or female)
Telugu
1 entries- మిణుగురుపురుగు noun (beetle larva or female)
Turkish
1 entries- ateş böceği noun (beetle larva or female)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đom đóm noun (beetle larva or female)
Welsh
2 entries- magïen noun (beetle larva or female)
- pryf y tân noun (beetle larva or female)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
She had a long way to go, for the Fire-King held his court in the very centre of the earth, and she might have lost herself in the dark passages had not the glowworm lent her his lamp.
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.
Source: wiktionary
1604, William Alexander, The Alexandraean Tragedie, Act V, Scene 2, in The Monarchicke Tragedies, London: Ed. Blount, 1607, Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine, That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe.
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