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US
/ˈmæɡət/
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[ UK /mˈæɡət/ ]
[ UK /mˈæɡət/ ]
NOUN
- the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter
How To Use maggot In A Sentence
- Long pole holding back maggots good.
- The source of the trouble lies to the north, where it spews its venom throughout the Great Kingdom, breeding dissension as rotten meat breeds maggots.
- This insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by sawflies or carpenter bees in the freshly-cut cane of the rose after pruning.
- The name memorialized the maggot emerging from poor Liliths topaz-studded nostril. Dancing with Werewolves
- Because fruit and vegetable waste goes in the brown bin and sits there for up to two weeks, maggots and fruit flies end up in it.
- There was ‘ongoing risk that residents' open wounds can become flyblown and infested with maggots’.
- A catepillar, a maggot and a tadpole is still an individual life, regardless of its stage of development. Think Progress » 128.
- My force was standing knee-deep in mutilated bodies, surrounded by the guttural moans of dying people, looking into the eyes of children bleeding to death with their wounds burning in the sun and being invaded by maggots and flies," he later wrote. Bystanders to Genocide
- The Island newspaper in particularly is openly contemptuous of the ‘political maggots’ that inhabit parliament and has repeatedly appealed for someone of incorruptible morals to save the nation.
- When maggots have completed their development they convert their last larval skin into a puparium, a hardened shell within which the pupa develops.