Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Luminous, as a firefly; of orpertaining to the Lampyrinæ.
  • noun A member of the Lampyrinæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridæ. See lampyris.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology An insect of the genus Lampyris or family Lampyridae.

Etymologies

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See lampyris.

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