wireworm

/ˈwaɪərˌwʌrm/
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Other forms: wireworms

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