Tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots
English: firefly, fire beetle, Pyrophorus noctiluca
Bahasa: kelip-kelip, kunang-kunang
api-apiBahasa Indonesia
firefly, Avicennia marina, Pyrophorus noctiluca, black mangrove, fire beetle
Rare
#65,176 of the corpus · 0.2 per million words · 1,033 occurrences
From api (reduplication) · very common, #586
Noun
Nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs
English: firefly, lightning bug
Bahasa: kelip-kelip, kunang-kunang
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
A mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast, occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground
English: black mangrove, Avicennia marina
Less certain link between this word and this sense.