Crossword-Solution: LAMPYRID
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LAMPYRID (3)
All the fireflies, which I caught here, belonged to the Lampyridæ (in which family the English glowworm is included), and the greater number of specimens were of Lampyris occidentalis.[4] I found that this insect emitted the most brilliant flashes when irritated: in the intervals, the abdominal rings were obscured.
But there are glow-worms there, and, sometimes, the male glow-worm (which has wings), has been called a "fire-fly." It belongs to a branch (genus) of the family _Lampyridæ_, which is also the family of its fire-fly cousins, but it is not shaped quite like them, and bears a different scientific name.
McDermott (1911 _a_) has studied the properties of luciferesceine and regards it merely as an incidental material found in many animals of the _Lampyridæ_ (in some non-luminous forms) and having no connection with the light production.