1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
A galleyworm.
3. Noun
wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants
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