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glow-worm 1. a European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, the females and larvae of which bear luminescent organs producing a greenish light: family Lampyridae 2. any of various other beetles or larvae of the family Lampyridae |
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The glow-worm light was waning too, but it was still there. The glow-worm fight was waning too, but it was still there. Towards midnight, however, it disappeared, or, to use a more appropriate term, it "died out" like a large glow-worm. |
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