JOINTWORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jointworm mean? 

• JOINTWORM (noun)
  The noun JOINTWORM has 1 sense:

1. larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

  Familiarity information: JOINTWORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOINTWORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

jointworm; strawworm

Hypernyms ("jointworm" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("jointworm" is a member of...):

Chalcidae; Chalcididae; family Chalcidae; family Chalcididae (an arthropod family including: chalcidflies)