glowworm (glowerm)

[Formerly also gloworm; You gaudy glow - worms , carrying seeming fire, Yet have no heat within ye! Fletcher (and another ), Elder Brother, iv. 1. Even as the glow - worm , which makes a goodly shew among the gra of the field, would be of little avail if deposited in a beacon-grate. Scott , Monastery, xviii. Gloxinia (glok-sin'i-ä), n. [NL., named after Gloxin , a German physician.] 1. A genus of gesneraceous plants, low and almost stemle , A variety of Gloxinia. with creeping rhizomes and large, nodding, bell shaped flowers. There are 6 species, natives of tropical America, several of which are very common in greenhouses, and have given rise to numerous hybrids and varieties. 2. [l. c.] A plant of this genus; also, the garden name of tuberous-rooted plants of the genus Sinningia.