glow fly

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English

Noun

glow fly (plural glow flies)

  1. The firefly.
    • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 137:
      So shines the glow-fly, when the sun retires, / And gems the night-air with phosphoric fires [] .