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Definition of Fire beetle
1. Noun. Tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots.
Generic synonyms: Elater, Elaterid, Elaterid Beetle
Group relationships: Genus Pyrophorus, Pyrophorus
Definition of Fire beetle
1. Noun. A brilliantly luminous beetle, ''Pyrophorus noctilucus'', one of the elaters. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Fire beetle
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Beetle
Literary usage of Fire beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"... WEST INDIAN fire beetle. BY GA PERKINS, MD BUT few of the many thousands of
organized beings that cover the earth are endowed with the power of becoming ..."
2. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... Panama bound for California—The Climate of Panama—Breezes from the Pacific—General
M Insects and Reptiles in Panama—The Fire-Beetle—The Family of Madame ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"fire beetle. See FIREFLY. FIRE ENGINE, a machine for throwing a stream of water
for the purpose of extinguishing fires. The earliest notices of machines ..."
4. Colonial Memories by Barker (Mary Anne) (1904)
"My ardent desire all the time I was in Trinidad was to get a specimen of a rare
fire-beetle, which is said to have a luminous proboscis. ..."
5. Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1882)
"The large beetle, which we call stag-beetle or fire-beetle, lucanus cervus,
taurus (ch. XXI, beetles), is in some districts of South Germany named ..."
6. Pennsylvania School Journal by Pennsylvania state educational association, Pennsylvania. Dept. of public instruction (1906)
"In China the poorer students use a species of fire-beetle to light them while
... It is probable that the light of a fire-beetle is made by the vegetable ..."
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