glow-worm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈglow-worm noun [countable] HBIan insect that produces a small amount of light from its body 萤火虫
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glow-worm• The movement of its antlers jerked Guy's hand, sending his cigarette arcing through the air like a flying glow-worm.• Most had already lit their fore-and-aft lamps, which twinkled like glow-worms in the gathering dusk.• Since glow-worms, fireflies, electric eels and many fish exhibit a similar phenomenon, the statement is not unrealistic.• It was an in-dwelling quality - the light of the tiny glow-worm, the light dancing in the waves.• They were glow-worms, the first I had ever seen.• Who remembers night sorties to see Yorkshire glow-worms and Gypsy Hill badgers?ˈglow-worm nounChineseSyllable
light produces that small an insect a amount its Corpus from of
glow-worm
ˈglow-worm
noun [countable]
an insect that produces a small amount of light from its body
ˈglow-worm
noun [countable]an insect that produces a small amount of light from its body