wire·worm (w r 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. |
wireworm [ˈwaɪəˌwɜːm]
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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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| Noun | 1. |  wireworm - wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plantsElateridae, 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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