JOINTWORM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

Synonyms:

jointworm; strawworm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jointworm" is a kind of...):

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)

Holonyms ("jointworm" is a member of...):

Chalcidae; Chalcididae; family Chalcidae; family Chalcididae (an arthropod family including: chalcidflies)

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