wire·worm /-ˌwɝm/
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Wire·worm 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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wireworm
n : wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots
of many crop plants