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    WIREWORM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plantsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("wireworm" 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 ("wireworm" is a member of...):

    Elateridae; family Elateridae (click beetles and certain fireflies)

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