0 an insect that is active during the night and whose tail produces light
1 a small insect that produces flashes of light when it flies at night
Glowworms make light to scare other animals, and some fireflies make light to show they aren’t good to eat.
And in the trees there were owls, and in the bushes there were whip-poor-wills, and sometimes a mockingbird, but no other kinds of birds, and at night the fireflies were all about.
If man could emit light in relative proportion to his size as compared with the firefly, he would need no other torch in the coal-mine.
The fireflies of the West Indies emit a continuous glow of considerable luminous intensity and the natives have used these imprisoned insects as light-sources.
The wind was blowing, and there were fireflies, and the dogs were jumping up and down.
A theory of complex reverberatory behaviour, first analysed in connection with interactions of fireflies, is shown to be applicable also to neural populations.
