MEALWORM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mealworm" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("mealworm" is a member of...):

family Tenebrionidae; Tenebrionidae (a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms)

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