What is another word for glow-worm?

Pronunciation: [ɡlˈə͡ʊwˈɜːm] (IPA)

Glow-worms are fascinating insects with a glowing green or blue light that can be seen on summer nights in many regions around the world. However, there are quite a few synonyms for the word "glow-worm" that are worth exploring, including firefly, lightning bug, luminous beetle, twinkling insect, and shining worm. Each of these names conveys a slightly different aspect of the insect's behavior or appearance, but all share the sense of a small, ethereal creature that illuminates the night with its otherworldly glow. Whether you call them glow-worms or something else, these insects are a magical part of nature that always inspire wonder and awe.

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What are the hypernyms for Glow-worm?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Glow-worm

  • We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
    Winston Churchill
  • We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
    Winston Churchill
  • Listen! what is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one’s road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner... Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere. Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the Hand with which we hold off Death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.
    H. Rider Haggard

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