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Wireworm   Listen
noun
Wireworm  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
One of the larvae 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.






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Words linked to "Wireworm" :   family Elateridae, Elateridae, larva



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