Crossword-Solution: GLOWWORM
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| Glowworm | n. | A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMEACZ
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eruption
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Sentences with GLOWWORM (5)
CONCURRITUR—HORÆ MOMENTO Outside the front of Boldwood’s house a group of men stood in the dark, with their faces towards the door, which occasionally opened and closed for the passage of some guest or servant, when a golden rod of light would stripe the ground for the moment and vanish again, leaving nothing outside but the glowworm shine of the pale lamp amid the evergreens over the door.
She could see the glowworm light from the binnacle, and the dim outline of the man at the wheel; also a form at the bows.
The beetles hunted in couples for these; and having found one, one of them stayed to watch it, while the other hurried to find a glowworm.
They never used the same glowworm twice, I observed; but let him go, apparently uninjured by the use they had made of him.
Her sense of being properly appreciated on her own native soil seemed to brighten the atmosphere and herbage around her, as the glowworm’s lamp irradiates the grass.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2002–2019).