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glow flies

glow flies is the plural of glow fly.

Meaning of glow fly

Noun

glow fly (plural glow flies)

  1. The firefly.
    • 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, page 137

Questions about glow flies

What is glow flies the plural of?
Glow flies is the plural of glow fly.

Words near glow flies in the dictionary

  1. Glovsky
  2. Glovskys
  3. glow
  4. glow discharge
  5. glow discharges
  6. glow flies
  7. glow fly
  8. glow party
  9. glow plug
  10. glow plugs
  11. glow rod

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