Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jointworm

1 sense of jointworm

Sense 1
strawworm, jointworm -- (larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains)
       => larva -- (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)