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wireworm |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wireworm \Wire"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) a One of the larv[ae] of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also {wire grub}. b A galleyworm. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wireworm n : wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants
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