CASEWORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caseworm mean? 

• CASEWORM (noun)
  The noun CASEWORM has 1 sense:

1. insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body

  Familiarity information: CASEWORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASEWORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("caseworm" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caseworm"):

caddisworm; strawworm (larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris)