WHEATWORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wheatworm mean? 

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

1. small roundworm parasitic on wheat

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHEATWORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small roundworm parasitic on wheat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Tylenchus tritici; wheat eel; wheat eelworm; wheatworm

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

nematode; nematode worm; roundworm (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)

Holonyms ("wheatworm" is a member of...):

genus Tylenchus; Tylenchus (type genus of the family Tylenchidae)