wireworm

Definition of Wireworm in English :

1. wireworm

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wireworm

noun

the wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles, which feeds on the roots of many crop plants and is a serious agricultural pest

noun

1.

any of the slender, hard-bodied, wormlike larvae of click beetles, that often live underground and attack the roots of crops

2.

a millipede (genus Julus)

3.

a roundworm (Haemonchus contortus) parasitic in the stomach and small intestine of cattle and sheep

n.

1. The yellowish hard-bodied larva of various click beetles that feeds on the roots and seedlings of many crop plants.

2. Any of various millipedes.