"glowworm" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: glowworms [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English glouworm; equivalent to glow + worm. Compare German Glühwurm. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|glouworm}} Middle English glouworm, {{compound|en|glow|worm}} glow + worm, {{cog|de|Glühwurm}} German Glühwurm Head templates: {{en-noun}} glowworm (plural glowworms)
  1. The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen. Categories (topical): Light sources Categories (lifeform): Elateroid beetles Translations (beetle larva or female): λαμπυρίς (lampurís) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), πυγολαμπίς (pugolampís) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), يَرَاع (yarāʕ) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), حَبَاحِب (ḥabāḥib) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), licurici [masculine] (Aromanian), ipurtargi (Basque), святляк (svjatljak) [masculine] (Belarusian), lluerna [feminine] (Catalan), puulo (Chamicuro), 螢火蟲 (Chinese Mandarin), 萤火虫 (yínghuǒchóng) (Chinese Mandarin), glimworm (Dutch), орине (oŕińe) (Erzya), lampiro (Esperanto), jaaniuss (Estonian), kiiltomato (Finnish), ver luisant [masculine] (French), vagalume [masculine] (Galician), lucecú [masculine] (Galician), Glühwürmchen [neuter] (German), Leuchtkäfer [masculine] (German), Johanniswürmchen [neuter, regional] (German), Johanniskäfer [masculine, regional] (German), szentjánosbogár (Hungarian), lampiro (Ido), tulimato (Ingrian), jaanimato (Ingrian), グローワーム (gurōwāmu) (Japanese), ツチボタル (tsuchibotaru) (Japanese), lampyris [feminine] (Latin), Glimmerworm [masculine] (Low German), മിന്നാമിനുങ്ങ് (minnāminuṅṅŭ) (Malayalam), titiwai (note: insect form) (Maori), pūrātoke (note: larval form) (Maori), vèrpeu [masculine] (Norman), آتش بوجكی (ateş böceği) (Ottoman Turkish), یلدز بوجكی (yıldız böceği) (Ottoman Turkish), vaga-lume (Portuguese), licurici (Romanian), светля́к (svetlják) [masculine] (Russian), жук-светля́к (žuk-svetlják) [masculine] (Russian), luciérnaga [feminine] (Spanish), మిణుగురుపురుగు (miṇugurupurugu) (Telugu), ateş böceği (Turkish), đom đóm (Vietnamese), magïen [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-glowworm-en-noun-BEPZpLyT Disambiguation of Light sources: 47 53 Disambiguation of Elateroid beetles: 47 53 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'beetle larva or female': 75 25
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow. Tags: Australia, New-Zealand Categories (topical): Light sources Categories (lifeform): Bibionomorphs, Elateroid beetles
    Sense id: en-glowworm-en-noun-QS93z-yd Disambiguation of Light sources: 47 53 Disambiguation of Bibionomorphs: 36 64 Disambiguation of Elateroid beetles: 47 53 Categories (other): Australian English, New Zealand English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: glow-worm Derived forms: common glowworm (taxonomic: Lampyris noctiluca) Related terms: firefly

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        {
          "ref": "1681, Andrew Marvell, “The Mower to the Glo-Worms”, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Robert Boulter, page 44",
          "text": "Ye Glo-worms, whose officious Flame\nTo wandring Mowers shows the way,\nThat in the Night have lost their aim,\nAnd after foolish Fires do stray;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1819, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 1, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820, p. 7,\nConfiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night\nPropitious to your earth-born light!"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, New York: New Directions, page 1",
          "text": "Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glowworms down the aisles of the organplaying wood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "larva",
          "larva"
        ],
        [
          "beetle",
          "beetle"
        ],
        [
          "Lampyridae",
          "Lampyridae#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)",
        "New Zealand English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "carnivorous",
          "carnivorous"
        ],
        [
          "gnat",
          "gnat"
        ],
        [
          "larva",
          "larva"
        ],
        [
          "keroplatid",
          "keroplatid"
        ],
        [
          "genus",
          "genus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand) A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "glow-worm"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "yarāʕ",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "يَرَاع"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḥabāḥib",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "حَبَاحِب"
    },
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "licurici"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "ipurtargi"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "svjatljak",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "святляк"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lluerna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ccc",
      "lang": "Chamicuro",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "puulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "螢火蟲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yínghuǒchóng",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "萤火虫"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "glimworm"
    },
    {
      "code": "myv",
      "lang": "Erzya",
      "roman": "oŕińe",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "орине"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "lampiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "jaaniuss"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "kiiltomato"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ver luisant"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vagalume"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lucecú"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Glühwürmchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Leuchtkäfer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "regional"
      ],
      "word": "Johanniswürmchen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "regional"
      ],
      "word": "Johanniskäfer"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "lampurís",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λαμπυρίς"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "pugolampís",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "πυγολαμπίς"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "szentjánosbogár"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "lampiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "tulimato"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "jaanimato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gurōwāmu",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "グローワーム"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tsuchibotaru",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "ツチボタル"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lampyris"
    },
    {
      "code": "nds",
      "lang": "Low German",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Glimmerworm"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "minnāminuṅṅŭ",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "മിന്നാമിനുങ്ങ്"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "insect form",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "titiwai"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "larval form",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "pūrātoke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vèrpeu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "ateş böceği",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "آتش بوجكی"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "yıldız böceği",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "یلدز بوجكی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "vaga-lume"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "licurici"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svetlják",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "светля́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žuk-svetlják",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "жук-светля́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "luciérnaga"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "miṇugurupurugu",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "మిణుగురుపురుగు"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "ateş böceği"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "word": "đom đóm"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "beetle larva or female",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "magïen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glowworm"
}

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