fire beetle

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fire beetle has 1 sense

fire beetle(n = noun.animal) firefly, pyrophorus noctiluca - tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots;

is a kind of elater, elaterid, elaterid beetle

is a member of genus pyrophorus, pyrophorus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

fire beetle,

A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly. [1913 Webster]