Wire-worm definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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To be sure, he did not despise a grub -- if he happened to meet one -- nor a cutworm nor a wire-worm. — The Tale of Grandfather Mole
But it dodges out again like a wire-worm through — Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers
= = -- The Carrot maggot and the wire-worm are destructive enemies of this crop. — The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
The slug, the snail, the wire-worm, the impudent sparrow, and the most impudent and insolent chaffinch, who all seem to have an idea that the seed is put into the ground entirely for their benefit. — The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering
Beautiful beaks they had, too, as they grew older, and sweet voices, that subsided into a querulous grumbling when the old birds had gone; but directly father or mother returned, tired and panting, to settle on the bush, up popped every bird, and strained every neck, and wide open sprang every beak, ready for the coming "slug, grub, or wire-worm." — Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn