HyperDic: mealworm

English > 1 sense of the word mealworm:
NOUNanimalmealwormthe larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae
English > mealworm: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningThe larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae.
Member ofTenebrionidae, family TenebrionidaeA family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms
BroaderlarvaThe 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
Spanishtenebrio molitor
Catalanescarabat de la farina

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