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WIREWORM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wireworm mean?
• WIREWORM (noun)
The noun WIREWORM has 1 sense:
1. wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants
Familiarity information: WIREWORM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("wireworm" 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 ("wireworm" is a member of...):
Elateridae; family Elateridae (click beetles and certain fireflies)
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