firefly
Noun
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Noun
firefly
- Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.
- 2000, Exploring Life Science, 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish, page 96 ↗,
- Fireflies are the best-known insects that produce light. […] Many fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together.
- 2004, B. V. David, T. N. Ananthakrishnan, Chapter 20: Bioluminescence, General and Applied Entomology, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2nd Edition, page 130 ↗,
- The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
- 2007, Lars Olof Björn, Helen Ghiradella, 23: Bioluminescence, Lars Olof Björn (editor), Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light, Springer, 2nd Edition, page 607 ↗,
- Various other luciferase genes, especially the firefly luciferase gene, are also used for the study of gene regulation. […] The classic use of bioluminescence, however, is the use of a luciferin-luciferase mixture from fireflies as an assay for ATP.
- 2000, Exploring Life Science, 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish, page 96 ↗,
- (beetle) lightning bug
- French: luciole, mouche à feu (Louisiana), moiselle (Louisiana), ver luisant
- German: Glühwürmchen, Leuchtkäfer
- Italian: lucciola
- Portuguese: vaga-lume, pirilampo, vagalume
- Russian: светля́к
- Spanish: luciérnaga
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