glow fly
English
Noun
glow fly (plural glow flies)
- The firefly.
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, p. 137:
- So shines the glow-fly, when the sun retires, / And gems the night-air with phosphoric fires […] .
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, p. 137: