wheatworm

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as wheat eel-worm (which see, under wheat).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A small nematode worm (Tylenchus tritici, formerly Anguillula tritici) which attacks wheat, advancing through the stem to the grains in the ear. In wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains may contain a large number of the minute young of the worm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun zoology Anguillula tritici, a nematode worm that attacks wheat.

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• noun small roundworm parasitic on wheat