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maggot

[mag-uht] / ˈmæg ət /
NOUN
insect
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It is the larval, or maggot, stage of a metallic-looking blowfly known as Cochliomyia hominivorax.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

Also on this fractured fairy tale’s jampacked menu are human-sized animal costumes, arcade graphics, pratfalls, pole dancing, adorable maggot puppets, Rube Goldberg designs, expressionist sequences and even a bar brawl with rodents.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

And that’s when she stumbled across Ron Sherman, the maggot doctor.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024

Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly.

From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023

There was a tiny doubt inside her, like a maggot in an apple core.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman




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