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Webster 1913 Edition
Wireworm
Wire′wormˊ
,Noun.
(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.