mealworm
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- noun
- /ˈmiːlˌwɜrm/
:
gusano de la harina
- Many pet owners buy mealworms to feed their reptiles and birds.
- eat mealworms
- mealworms and crickets
A little salt saute those mealworms and bacon grease.
- A little salt saute those mealworms and bacon grease.
- The cheap source of protein mealworms are that it is gross that it's a mealworm, but like, they're not that bad.
- And the tongue goes in and it snags the grub, which looks like a mealworm or a snags the grub and pulls it out and eats it.
Examples
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They really do prefer mealworms or flies.
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Yesterday and the day before, he ate a mealworm.
Blog text (26) -
All ten birds were capable of waiting for the mealworms, but the amount of time they'd wait varied.
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"The aye-ayes found the mealworms even when they could not see or smell them," Erickson says.
Academic text (1993) -
Under Mr. Phelps' supervision, my sister nursed the crow back to health in a glass terrarium, hand-feeding it mealworms and crickets.
Fiction book (1995) -
The research team used mealworms to study the effects of diet on insect growth.
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Birds flock to the backyard when I put out mealworms for them to eat.
Synonyms
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6.1
A soft, thick young insect that lives in soil or rotting wood
How Nutritious
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Morphology
Etymology
The word mealworm comes from meal, a word for 'ground grain' or 'flour' as in oatmeal, and worm, because these small larvae often live in stored grain. That's why a mealworm is a worm-like young insect used to feed animals and now sometimes used as food for people.