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Wheatworm

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.

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wheatworm

n. (context zoology English) (taxlink Anguina tritici species noshow=1), a nematode worm that attacks wheat.

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wheatworm

n. small roundworm parasitic on wheat [syn: wheat eel, wheat eelworm, Tylenchus tritici]