wheatworm Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small roundworm parasitic on wheat
    Tylenchus tritici; wheat eelworm; wheat eel.

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Wheat"worm` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

Webster 1913