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‖ cucuy, cucuyo|kuːˈkuːɪ, kuːˈkuːjəʊ|
Also 6 cucuio, 9 cocuyo, erron. cucullo; 9– cucujo.
[Sp. cucuyo, adaptation of a Haitian or other native American name.]
The West Indian firefly (Pyrophorus noctilucus), an elaterid beetle which emits brilliant phosphorescent light from spots on the body.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 794 New-Spain's Cucuio, in his forehead brings Two burning Lamps, two underneath his wings. 1647W. Browne Polexander i. 97 These little Cucuyës..mingle their living lights with the obscuritie of this Dungeon. 1692Coles, Cucuye, a bird in Hispaniola, with eyes under the wings, shining in the night. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Cucuyos, a king of Fly in America, which gives such a Lustre in the Night that one may..write and read by the Light of it. 18..L. M. Child Fountain of Beauty, The cucullo and the lantern-fly stood at her side. 1836W. E. Shuckard tr. Burmeister's Man. Ent. iii. 491 Among the natives, all these insects are called Cucujos or Cucujii. 1842Thoreau Excursions (1863) 60 Launch forth like a cucullo into the night. 1874Science Record 485 The brilliant radiance of the cocuyo is emitted from its ventral region. 1952E. N. Harvey Bioluminescence xiii. 461 Almost every traveler to the Caribbean region has mentioned luminous elaterids, which Spaniards call ‘cucujo’, and the French, ‘taupin’. |
