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Maggot


Definition:

  • (n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
  • (n.) A whim; an odd fancy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
  • (2) Very fresh.” But he’s much more excited about another, hidden ingredient: fat extracted from the larvae of black soldier flies (or, to put it less delicately, maggot fat).
  • (3) We describe the indications for use, materials and methods for the rearing of sterile larvae, the modes of action, and the complications of maggot debridement.
  • (4) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
  • (5) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
  • (6) Ed played [Funkadelic's] Maggot Brain ; we're excited about the new Four Tet single.
  • (7) In this study, maggots, living material, are proposed as a new medium of investigation in forensic medicine.
  • (8) The case reports deal with 2 cases in which changes due to damage by maggots primarily gave the impression of gunshot-wounds.
  • (9) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
  • (10) A case is described of a 79-year-old man in whom a gangrenous toe was invaded by maggots of the flesh fly Parasarcophaga argyrostoma.
  • (11) Conservative management by packing the nose with a chloroform and turpentine (1:4) mixture followed by manual removal of the dead maggots is an effective method.
  • (12) A cuterebrid maggot generally causes a single furuncular nodule.
  • (13) To investigate the relationship between immature (maggot) house flies, Musca domestica, and bacteria, we compared the development of sterile first-instar maggots in each of 10 pure blood agar cultures of bacteria with growth on sterile blood agar (negative control) and on standard house fly rearing medium (positive control).
  • (14) Female parasitoid flies of the genus Ormia must find a specific cricket host on which to deposit their parasitic maggots.
  • (15) The man handed me a sachet of yeasty smelling flakes and I sprinkled it over the ignorant maggots.
  • (16) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
  • (17) However, when the posterior end of the larva was recovered from the unsectioned portion of the appendix, it was identified as a maggot of the genus Sarcophaga.
  • (18) Over the course of it the prosecution tried to explain away the lack of any evidence of sexual intercourse or rape on Crystal's body by speculating that "semen-destroying maggots" had been at work.
  • (19) In each case, migration of the maggot through the subretinal space produced widespread ophthalmoscopic and fluorescein angiographic changes that are believed to be pathognomonic of subretinal ophthalmomyiasis.
  • (20) In special conditions, the damage by maggots can take on the appearance of bullet holes.

Maggoty


Definition:

  • (a.) Infested with maggots.
  • (a.) Full of whims; capricious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cat doesn't give a crap if you've come from LA and trained Will Smith's cats and have a pocket full of Kibbles: it will keep on dragging maggoty voles under your bed and sitting staring at you through a window mouthing "mow?
  • (2) I for one can't wait for the scene with a maggoty margherita.

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