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Fire Beetle

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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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fire Beetle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fire-beetle.html. 1828.
 
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