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

1 sense of wireworm

Sense 1
wireworm -- (wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants)
       => 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)