firebug

Examples

• All

• During the summer, we often see a firebug crawling on the warm rocks in the garden.

• Children are always excited to find a firebug when they explore the backyard.

• "No, just the local firebug," Emily said calmly, and then burst out laughing at the look on Diana's face.

  Fiction book (1992)

• And the judge even said that I could get it "explunged" from my record if I was to go to these group therapy sessions with all them teenagers who were supposed to be firebugs or something.

  Freeway (1996)

• In The Firebug Connection (George, 1993), a 12-year-old investigates what is causing the death of European firebugs.

  Academic text (2012)

• In The Firebug Connection (George, 1993), a 12-year-old investigates what is causing the death of European firebugs.

  Academic text (2012)

• Sleel was always trying to prove he was the toughest man in the galaxy, and he would walk barefoot through a nest of firebugs if he thought that would make the point to somebody.

  Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

P

Pyrrhocoridae

vsfirebug

• Specialized

9.9

A group of bright red and black insects often called firebugs that live in warm places

is one specific small red and black species rather than a whole family

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology