Antonyms for firefly
ˈfaɪərˌflaɪfire·f·ly

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1. fireflynoun

   A nocturnal, bioluminescent beetle of the family Lampyridae.

   Synonyms:
   lightning bug

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1. • Beetle
   • Elaterid Beetle

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1. firefly, fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctilucanoun

   tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots

   Synonyms:
   lightning bug, fire beetle

2. firefly, lightning bugnoun

   nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs

   Synonyms:
   lightning bug, fire beetle

How to use firefly in a sentence?

1. Fred Allen:

   You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

2. Jane Seymour:

   People say, ‘You’re like a phoenix.’ No, I just had a strong role model in my mother, everyone will have challenges. Your natural instinct is to close up your heart and let it eat you up. Do something to help someone else. It will heal you. You’ll be like a magnet when you do that. Light to firefly.

3. Tara Cornelisse:

   That firefly was at the top of my list to do a petition for fireflies, but when we were certain about the development going on in one of its habitats, thats when we elevated it to an emergency listing.

4. Crowfoot:

   What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

5. Crowfoot:

   What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

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