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maggotlike

maggotlike adjective: resembling a maggot.

Adjective

maggotlike (comparative more maggotlike, superlative most maggotlike)

  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

Forms of maggotlike

comparativemore maggotlike
superlativemost maggotlike

Origin of maggotlike

From maggot + -like.

Questions about maggotlike

What does maggotlike mean?
Maggotlike means resembling a maggot.
What part of speech is maggotlike?
Maggotlike is an adjective.

Words near maggotlike in the dictionary

  1. maggotiest
  2. maggotiness
  3. maggoting
  4. maggotish
  5. maggotless
  6. maggotlike
  7. maggotoria
  8. maggotorium
  9. maggotoriums
  10. maggotpated
  11. maggotpie

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