From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishglow-wormˈglow-worm noun [countable] HBIan insect that produces a small amount of light from its body
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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? 