Firefly
noun
A type of insect that can produce light from its body during the night.
In the evening, you can see fireflies flying around the trees in the park.
Often appears as...
- catch a firefly
- see a firefly
noun
A type of insect that can produce light from its body during the night.
In the evening, you can see fireflies flying around the trees in the park.
Often appears as...
- catch a firefly
- see a firefly
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Pro Tip 1/3Natural Context
Fireflies are usually mentioned in natural settings and less often in urban environments.
Camping in the countryside, we enjoyed the fireflies' twinkle after sunset.
Pro Tip 2/3Summer Evenings
Fireflies are commonly associated with warm summer evenings.
As kids, we ran through the fields chasing fireflies on long summer evenings.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbolism
Fireflies can symbolize hope, guidance, and inspiration in literature.
Her smile was the firefly that led me out of my darkest times.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Context
Fireflies are usually mentioned in natural settings and less often in urban environments.
Camping in the countryside, we enjoyed the fireflies' twinkle after sunset.
Pro Tip 2/3Summer Evenings
Fireflies are commonly associated with warm summer evenings.
As kids, we ran through the fields chasing fireflies on long summer evenings.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbolism
Fireflies can symbolize hope, guidance, and inspiration in literature.
Her smile was the firefly that led me out of my darkest times.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Context
Fireflies are usually mentioned in natural settings and less often in urban environments.
Camping in the countryside, we enjoyed the fireflies' twinkle after sunset.
Pro Tip 2/3Summer Evenings
Fireflies are commonly associated with warm summer evenings.
As kids, we ran through the fields chasing fireflies on long summer evenings.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbolism
Fireflies can symbolize hope, guidance, and inspiration in literature.
Her smile was the firefly that led me out of my darkest times.
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Underwater astonishments...
sea and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and a half hours on the way down it's a perfectly positively pitch-black world and we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't describe these blinking lights a world of bioluminescence like fireflies dr.
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Underwater astonishments...
and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and half hours on the way down, it's a perfectly positively pitch-black world. And we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't these blinking lights -- a world of bioluminescence, like fireflies.
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The brilliance of...
but these organisms can turn parts of their body into glow sticks. It's like nature made them ready to rave. Why? In one way or another, bioluminescence improves a living thing's chances of survival. Take the firefly. It's ability to glow green helps it attract a mate on a warm, summer night,
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Edith Widder: Glowing...
It was breathtaking. Now, usually if people are familiar with bioluminescence at all, it's these guys; it's fireflies. And there are a few other land-dwellers that can make light -- some insects, earthworms, fungi -- but in general, on land, it's really rare. In the ocean, it's the rule
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Steven Strogatz: How...
We would really like to have a deeper insight into how this works and to understand, you know, exactly where this organization comes from. How do the rules give rise to the patterns? There is one case that we have begun to understand better, and it's the case of fireflies.
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Watch: Fireflies Glowing...
characters to tell the species apart generally the habitat where we find photinus carolinas is in these low-lying moist areas where there's kind of a relatively clear understory so that the fireflies can visually see each other it
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
can download we need to put the LED light the pattern from that firefly in our computer-aided design okay we need optimization tools this is one that's based on bones and how they how your bone responds to stress and
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Rives: Reinventing the...
and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball,
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Why humans run the world...
is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the world was not much greater than that of jellyfish or fireflies or woodpeckers. Today, in contrast, we control this planet. And the question
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Fireflies: Nature's...
go find some professor sarah lauer is a passionate advocate for the fireflies treacherous ways but to understand their deceit first you need a crash course in firefly mating habits
Video examples
Underwater astonishments...
sea and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and a half hours on the way down it's a perfectly positively pitch-black world and we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't describe these blinking lights a world of bioluminescence like fireflies dr.
Video examples
Underwater astonishments...
and anyone that's had that lovely opportunity knows that for about two and half hours on the way down, it's a perfectly positively pitch-black world. And we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't these blinking lights -- a world of bioluminescence, like fireflies.
Video examples
The brilliance of...
but these organisms can turn parts of their body into glow sticks. It's like nature made them ready to rave. Why? In one way or another, bioluminescence improves a living thing's chances of survival. Take the firefly. It's ability to glow green helps it attract a mate on a warm, summer night,
Video examples
Edith Widder: Glowing...
It was breathtaking. Now, usually if people are familiar with bioluminescence at all, it's these guys; it's fireflies. And there are a few other land-dwellers that can make light -- some insects, earthworms, fungi -- but in general, on land, it's really rare. In the ocean, it's the rule
Video examples
Steven Strogatz: How...
We would really like to have a deeper insight into how this works and to understand, you know, exactly where this organization comes from. How do the rules give rise to the patterns? There is one case that we have begun to understand better, and it's the case of fireflies.
Video examples
Watch: Fireflies Glowing...
characters to tell the species apart generally the habitat where we find photinus carolinas is in these low-lying moist areas where there's kind of a relatively clear understory so that the fireflies can visually see each other it
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
can download we need to put the LED light the pattern from that firefly in our computer-aided design okay we need optimization tools this is one that's based on bones and how they how your bone responds to stress and
Video examples
Rives: Reinventing the...
and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball,
Video examples
Why humans run the world...
is that they were unimportant. Their impact on the world was not much greater than that of jellyfish or fireflies or woodpeckers. Today, in contrast, we control this planet. And the question
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Fireflies: Nature's...
go find some professor sarah lauer is a passionate advocate for the fireflies treacherous ways but to understand their deceit first you need a crash course in firefly mating habits
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Grace Jones
Model
They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.
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Bradley Chicho
English Poet
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
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Marek Hlasko
Polish Writer
I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.
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Grace Jones
Model
They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.
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Bradley Chicho
English Poet
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
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Marek Hlasko
Polish Writer
I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.
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