Meanings
adjectivemaggotlike (comparative more maggotlike, superlative most maggotlike)
comparative more maggotlike · superlative most maggotlike
- Resembling a maggot.
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 Denali1 more example
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
Origin
- Englishmaggot
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishmaggotlike
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