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Pyrophorus

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Py`roph´o`rus
n.1.(Old Chem.) Any one of several substances or mixtures which phosphoresce or ignite spontaneously on exposure to air, as a heated mixture of alum, potash, and charcoal, or a mixture of charcoal and finely divided lead.
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Noun1.Pyrophorus - tropical click beetlesPyrophorus - tropical click beetles              
genus Pyrophorus
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Elateridae, family Elateridae - click beetles and certain fireflies
fire beetle, firefly, Pyrophorus noctiluca - tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots
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For instance, here Rosie describes the jumping ability of a Pyrophorus luminosus beetle they discovered in the Brazilian rain forest: "Pyro would bend his head and thorax backward until he rested on the ends of his head and wing cases.
The Voyage of the Beetle by Children's Digest
Basement Lab The entomologist drops into a pool of light to peer at the magnified maxillae of a rare beetle while something lackluster raps the dusty pane above her head, a passing fluster of drops hardly worth speaking of as rain; she bagged this firebrand, Pyrophorus ignitus, on a slope that catches two hundred inches a year.
City album: a wet afternoon by Leithauser, Brad / New Criterion
McElroy of the University of California, San Diego, and their colleagues started with the Jamaican click beetle, Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus, a distant relative of the firefly.
Beetlejuice genes now in biotechnicolor by Weiss, R. / Science News
 
 
 
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