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lightningbug

lightningbug is the alternative form of lightning bug.

Meaning of lightning bug

Noun

lightning bug (plural lightning bugs)

  1. A firefly.
    • I watched as lightning bugs drifted in, glowing yellow against the shadows.2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 18

Forms of lightningbug

plurallightningbugs

Questions about lightningbug

What is lightningbug the alternative form of?
Lightningbug is the alternative form of lightning bug.

Words near lightningbug in the dictionary

  1. lightning talk
  2. lightning talks
  3. lightning war
  4. lightning wars
  5. lightning-quick
  6. lightningbug
  7. lightninged
  8. lightninging
  9. lightninglike
  10. lightningly
  11. lightningproof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lightningbug (page history and authors); lightning bug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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