WIREWORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wireworm mean? 

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

1. wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIREWORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wireworm" 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)

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

Elateridae; family Elateridae (click beetles and certain fireflies)