Definition of wireworm Wireworm

wire•worm

We found 5 definitions of wireworm from 4 different sources.

What does wireworm mean?

WordNet

Noun

Plural: wireworms

wireworm - wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants

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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Wiktionary

wireworm (Noun)
The larva of the click beetle .

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

wireworm (n.)
One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.
wireworm (n.)
A galleyworm.