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wireworm
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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