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wire·worm (w

wûrm

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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]

(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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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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wireworm [ˈwaɪəwɜːm] N → gusano m de elatérido

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