Wireworm is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WIREWORM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a hard-bodied wormlike larva of the click beetle, destructive to plant roots
• the worm-like larva of a click beetle. Many wireworms feed on the underground parts of plants and can cause damage to arable and other crops.
• destructive wormlike beetle larva
• 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.
• A galleyworm.
• wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a wirelike worm

Words related to WIREWORM

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Words that contain WIREWORM

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How to use WIREWORM in a sentence

• Rub over the wire-worm with a soft rag and polish with a clean duster.
• Small Potatoes, roughly hollowed out, or pieces of Carrot, may be used as traps for wireworm and other vermin.
• If this is impossible, see that the compost is sweet, friable, and, above all, free from that terrible scourge of Carnations, the wireworm.
• For practical purposes the Wireworm may be regarded as inhabiting every kind of soil and consuming every kind of crop.
• The Hessian fly, the wire-worm, the flea, and grubs and scale insects thrive mischievously.

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