jointworm

1. 1.

   larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains

   Synonymsstrawworm

   Broaderlarva

   Part ofChalcididae

Other forms of jointworm

plural

jointworms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jointworm

What does jointworm mean?

jointworm means "larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains".

How many syllables are in jointworm?

jointworm has 2 syllables: join-tworm. The stress falls on "join".

What is another word for jointworm?

Close synonyms include strawworm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jointworm a common word?

jointworm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.