glowworm

suomi-englanti sanakirja

glowworm englannista suomeksi

1. kiiltomato

0. Substantiivi

1. kiiltomato

glowworm englanniksi

1. The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families (taxlink) or (taxfmt) that gives out a green light from its abdomen.

(cot)

2. (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)

3. 1604, (w), ''The Alexandraean Tragedie'', Act V, Scene 2, in ''The Monarchicke Tragedies'', London: Ed. Blount, 1607,https://archive.org/details/monarchicketrage00stir

Some things afarre doe like the Glow-worme shine,

That lookt to neere haue of that light no signe.

4. (RQ:Webster Malfi)

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1681|author=Andrew Marvell|chapter=The Mower to the Glo-Worms|title=Miscellaneous Poems|location=London|publisher=Robert Boulter|page=44|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52133.0001.001

6. 1819, (w), “The Waggoner” Canto 1, in ''The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth'', London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820, p. 7,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001428214

Confiding Glow-worms, ’tis a night

Propitious to your earth-born light!

7. (RQ:D. Thomas Under Milk Wood)

8. A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus (taxlink) that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.