Firewood vs Firefly - What's the difference?
firewood | firefly |
Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.
Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.
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As nouns the difference between firewood and firefly
is that firewood is wood intended to be burned, typically for heat while firefly is any beetle of the family lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.firewood
English
Noun
- After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.
firefly
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(wikipedia firefly) (Lampyridae)Noun
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- Fireflies' are the best-known insects that produce light.Many ' fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together.
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- The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
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- Various other luciferase genes, especially the firefly' luciferase gene, are also used for the study of gene regulation.The classic use of bioluminescence, however, is the use of a luciferin-luciferase mixture from ' fireflies as an assay for ATP.
