Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wireworm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wireworm \Wire"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) One of the larv[ae] 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wireworm
n : wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots
of many crop plants
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