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The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.
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n.
Victuals; food.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Grub
n.
One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.
v. t.
To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
v. t.
To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
n.
One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.
n.
A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.
n.
Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvae of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larvae are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Grub
n.
A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub.
n.
An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
n.
A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.
n.
A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.
n.
The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
n.
A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabe.
n.
Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
v. t. & i.
To feel or grope in the dark.
a.
Dirty; unclean.
n.
See Grub, n., 1.
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