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  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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