korenworm

Noun

 * 1) A plant-eating beetle larva, especially a chafer or weevil.
 * 2) * [1747, Henry Baker, "A letter from Mr. Henry Baker F. R. S. to the President, concerning the grubbs destroying the grass in Norfolk" in Philsophical Transactions of the Royal Society:
 * By the Dutch they are named Baum-kaefer, Roub-kaefer, Koren Worm, or Corn-Worm, because they destroy the Roots of Corn.]