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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A larva of a chalcid wasp, Tetramesa grandis, of western North America, that infests wheat and reduces yield.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The larva of a trichopterous neuropterous insect; a caddisworm: so called from the bits of straw of which it builds its case. See cut under caddis-worm.

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

  • noun A caddice worm.

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

  • noun The grub of the caddis fly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris
  • noun larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

Etymologies

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straw +‎ worm?

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