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fire beetle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fire beetle has 1 sense
- fire beetle(n = noun.animal) firefly, pyrophorus noctiluca - tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots; Array is a kind of elater, elaterid, elaterid beetle
is a member of genus pyrophorus, pyrophorus
CIDE DICTIONARY
fire beetle,
A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus ), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo . The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly. [1913 Webster]
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