maggotlike

adj

maggotlike

adj

Etymology From maggot + -like.

1

Resembling a maggot.

  • A wormlike, or else more commonly a maggotlike, creature, according to the species of the parasite, hatches from this egg […]1876, George Bowdler Buckton, Monograph of the British Aphides:
  • Once we had the photos, it was just a matter of counting all the maggotlike images of caribou on the white snow background.1998, L David Mech, The Wolves of Denali:

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