Wireworm

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wireworm \Wire"worm`\, n. (Zool.)
     (a) 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}.


     (b) A galleyworm.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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