Usually means: Bioluminescent larvae emitting soft light.
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  1. glowworm: Merriam-Webster
  2. glowworm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. glowworm: Vocabulary.com
  4. Glowworm, glowworm: Wordnik
  5. glowworm: Wiktionary
  6. glowworm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. glowworm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. glowworm: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Glowworm, glowworm: Dictionary.com
  10. Glowworm (astronomy), Glowworm (comics), Glowworm (disambiguation), Glowworm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Glowworm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. glowworm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. glowworm: Rhymezone
  14. Glowworm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. glowworm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. glowworm: FreeDictionary.org
  17. glowworm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. glowworm: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. glowworm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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  1. glowworm: Encyclopedia

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  1. GlowWorm: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A carnivorous gnat larva in the keroplatid genus Arachnocampa that spins threads to capture insects attracted by its glow.

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