wireworm
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wire·worm
(wīr′wûrm′)n.
1. The yellowish hard-bodied larva of various click beetles that feeds on the roots and seedlings of many crop plants.
2. Any of various millipedes.
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wireworm
(ˈwaɪəˌwɜːm)n
(Animals) the wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles, which feeds on the roots of many crop plants and is a serious agricultural pest
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wire•worm
(ˈwaɪərˌwɜrm)n.
1. any of the slender, hard-bodied larvae of click beetles, many of which live underground and feed on the roots of plants.
2. any of various small millipedes.
[1780–90]
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Noun | 1. | wireworm - wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants Elateridae, family Elateridae - click beetles and certain fireflies 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 |
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