HyperDic: wireworm

English > 1 sense of the word *wireworm*:
NOUN	animal	wireworm	wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles

English > *wireworm*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants.
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