Definition of maggot in English:
- These greenish larvae are typical fly maggots in appearance; legless, broadest at the tail end and tapering to a point at the head, with hook-like mouthparts.
- This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion.
- Flea beetles and root maggots, the two major radish pests, can be avoided by placing floating row cover over the bed.
- "You know, Ruth," he said, "I don't wish to say anything against Isaac, and I don't want to make you uneasy, but you know as well as I do that he has a strange maggot in his brain.
- There's a strange maggot hath got into their brains, which possesseth them with a kind of vertigo, and it reigns in the pulpit more than anywhere else, for some of our preachmen are grown dog mad, there's a worm got into their tongues as well as their heads.
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