wireworm noun. ['wʌɪǝwǝ:m] L18.
[from WIRE noun + WORM noun.]
The slender hard-skinned larva of a click-beetle (family Elateridae), destructive to the roots of plants; any of various similar larvae, esp. the leather-jacket grub of a crane-fly. Also, a myriapod, esp. of the millipede genus Iulus, which damages plant roots.

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