"common glowworm" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: common glowworms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} common glowworm (plural common glowworms)
  1. A wingless larviform female of the European firefly species, Lampyris noctiluca, which glows in the dark due to bioluminescence. Wikipedia link: Glowworm Categories (lifeform): Elateroid beetles Translations (female of Lampyris noctiluca): kiiltomato (Finnish), vanlig lysmask (Swedish), stor lysmask (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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