Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The larva of a grain-beetle or of a grain-moth.

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Examples

  • R.bbi Simon and R. Eliezer, the son of Jacob, said, “the wheat-worm and the grain-worm are allowed, because there is no matter in them.”

    Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

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