Mealworm

Quick meaning: Mealworm is a noun meaning (usually) The larval stage of the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor), a species of darkling beetle.

Meaning

(usually) The larval stage of the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor), a species of darkling beetle.

More Meanings

1. (sometimes, informal, loosely) This or any other larva that looks similar and is found in similar circumstances (i.e., in meal, in flour, in food, in the pantry, in feed, in the feedroom), such as the larva of a mealmoth (flour moth).

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: waxworm

We buy mealworms to supplement our chickens' feed ration, and they do some scratching in the yard to find other bugs too.

They'd seen a few mealmoths and mealworms in recent days, and then they figured out that the cornflakes in the pantry were the source of the problem.

Word Forms

• mealworms

Synonyms for mealworm

Depending on context, synonyms include waxworm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mealbeetle, basketworm, wireworm, woodworm, inchworm, caterpillar.

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