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Tylenchus tritici

Wheatworm \Wheat"worm`\, n. 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.