caseworm

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

case +‎ worm

Noun[edit]

caseworm (plural caseworms)

  1. A worm or grub that makes a case for itself.

See also[edit]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for caseworm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)