Definition of "wireworm" [wire•worm]

• The yellowish hard-bodied larva of various click beetles that feeds on the roots and seedlings of many crop plants. (noun)
• Any of various millipedes. (noun)

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• "Most Southeastern potato farmers, both sweet and Irish, contend a wireworm is a wireworm and the only good one is a dead one."
• "The nutty roots are often eaten by earth vermin, especially wireworm."
• "Slugs should be trapped, but the wireworm, unfortunately, has often done the mischief before we become aware of its presence, and even then it is a troublesome pest to get rid of."