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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 wire·worm /-ˌwɝm/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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