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glowfly

glowfly is the alternative form 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

Forms of glowfly

pluralglowflies

Questions about glowfly

What is glowfly the alternative form of?
Glowfly is the alternative form of glow fly.

Words near glowfly in the dictionary

  1. glowest
  2. gloweth
  3. glowfag
  4. glowfaggot
  5. glowflies
  6. glowfly
  7. glowie
  8. glowier
  9. glowies
  10. glowiest
  11. glowin'

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