superworm

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ worm.

Noun

superworm (plural superworms)

1. The grub of a beetle in the genus Zophobas, especially as a food item.
   • 2022 June 10, Veronique Greenwood, “How Superworms Make Styrofoam Into a Healthy Meal”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     To find out, Dr. Rinke and his colleagues grew three groups of superworms in the lab. One group ate bran, one ate blocks of polystyrene and the third ate nothing. (The experiments were temporarily halted by hungry superworms’ tendency to turn cannibal; giving each unfed superworm its own private space allowed the study to continue.)