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Definition of Lightning bug

1. Noun. Nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs.

Definition of Lightning bug

1. Noun. Another name for the firefly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightning Bug

Literary usage of Lightning bug

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Lightning-bug—contd. 1844 I could think of nothing but ... Lowell out, " Gentlemen, I am the star of the universe and the lightning-bug of the world. ..."

2. The Electrical Review (1878)
"But time passed and the lightning bug did not appear, so the glow-worms ... The gad-fly was denounced as a rogue, and the lightning bug was proved to be ..."

3. Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror. A Series of Illustrated by George Augustus Lofton (1890)
"... gas and electric lights, and so far as he could learn their inimitable civilizations had never seriously interfered with the lightning-bug's vocation. ..."

4. Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill: (a Book of Moods). by Eugene Fitch Ware (1895)
"THE LIGHTNING-BUG AND THE SKEETER. [Fable No. 4.] Once a lightning-bug did fly With a skeeter down the street, One hot evening in July, And these words he ..."

5. Little Folks' Land: The Story of a Little Boy in a Big World by Madge Alford Bigham (1907)
"Well, one night there was one of these little fellows named Jimmy Lightning-Bug, and he was playing around in Sally Waters' back yard,—making his little ..."

6. Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror : a Series of Illustrated by George Augustus Lofton (1898)
"... I discovered that it was a lightning-bug convention. They began to sparkle pretty generally and profusely, chattering about something which, ..."

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