NOUN | animal | wireworm | wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles |
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Meaning | wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants. | |
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Member of | Elateridae, family Elateridae | click beetles and certain fireflies |
Broader | 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 |
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