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Another word for maggot

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Noun
      1. The six-legged immature form of a tick or mite.
      2. The early, free-living, immature form of any animal that changes structurally when it becomes an adult, usually by a complex metamorphosis
      3. The newly hatched, earliest form of any of various animals that undergo metamorphosis, differing markedly in appearance from the adult.
      1. A slimy mass of aggregated amoeboid cells that develops into the spore-bearing fruiting body of a cellular slime mold.
      2. The smooth soft larva of certain insects, such as the sawfly.
      3. Any of various terrestrial gastropod mollusks having a slow-moving slimy elongated body with no shell or with a flat rudimentary shell on or under the skin, usually found in moist habitats.
      1. (Slang) Food.
      2. (Old, Informal) A person who does menial or tedious work; drudge
      3. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
    See also:

    worm

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Sentence Examples

  • Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

  • The study of the physiology of ecdysis in its simpler forms has unfortunately been somewhat neglected, investigators having directed their attention chiefly to the cases that are most striking, such as the transformation of a maggot into a fly, or of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

  • The eruciform larva of the Orthorrhapha leads on to the headless vermiform maggot of the Cyclorrhapha, and in the latter sub-order we find metamorphosis carried to its extreme point, the muscid flies being the most highly specialized of all the Hexapoda as regards structure, while their maggots are the most degraded of all insect larvae.

  • - A, Ox Bot Maggot; B, puparium; C, Ox Warble Fly (Hypoderma bovis).

  • The recent discovery of a bloodsucking maggot, which is found in native huts throughout the greater part of tropical and subtropical Africa, and attacks the inmates when asleep, is of great interest.

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