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lightning bug

noun as in nocturnal luminescent beetle

Weak matches

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In reality it is only the female which is the lightning bug, for the male is not equipped with any lighting power.

It was a rare kind, and I almost had one when a mosquito bit me and I had to let the lightning-bug go.

I want to get a new specimen of a lightning-bug I noticed in the garden.

Long and narrow, it looked like a kalsomined cave illumined by a lightning bug in a bottle when he turned the electric switch.

"Nothing doing on the carpenter's bench," he said, flashing the "lightning bug" toward the site of the engine house.

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