glow-worm

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English

Noun

glow-worm (plural glow-worms)

  1. Alternative spelling of glowworm.
    • 1837, L E L, Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides.  In Three Volumes.">…], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 57–58:
      One device obtained great admiration: small lights were scattered on the ground, in some of the winding paths of turf, to emulate glow-worms.