Word Meanings - WIREWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Snapping
  of Snap
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Snapper
  One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Snappish
  Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
• Beetlestock
  The handle of a beetle.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Sometimes
  Formerly; sometime.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

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