Crossword clues for maggots
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Larva \Lar"va\ (l[aum]r"v[.a]), n.; pl. L. Larv[ae] (l[aum]r"v[ae]), E. Larvas (l[aum]r"v[.a]z). [L. larva ghost, specter, mask.]
(Zo["o]l.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larv[ae] of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other groups of insects the larv[ae] are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits, and are called caterpillars, grubs, maggots, etc.
(Zo["o]l.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of maggot English)
Usage examples of "maggots".
One of the biggest Maggots that Chip had ever seen had been coming the other way.
Chip and his twelve companions had broken out between the walls of two of the massive red tunnel-mounds which the Maggots erected everywhere in conquered territory.
As far as he and every other grunt was concerned—Vat, rat and bat alike—Magh' were Maggots and they only came in two varieties: dangerous ones and all the rest.
Out here, in the broken country, even right inside their own backyard, Maggots were getting their asses whipped.
The wire ambush had been a resounding success, but they'd been able to watch how the Maggots, dipping their long feelers to the broken ground, had been able to track them, step-by-step.
The minute it stopped, Maggots appeared on the outside of the tunnel-mounds, doing repairs.
Clinging as they did to the outside of the tunnels, the Maggots had a wonderful vantage point.
It was certainly the best show the two surviving Maggots of the patrol would see for the rest of their lives.
At the rate the water around the barbed-wire bound Maggots was rising .
The Maggots had taken the wooden doors, leaving the dark stairway into the cellar unguarded.
It did appear that Maggots slowed down at night, coming to a virtual halt in the wee small hours.
There were few Maggots about, but there was no sense in looking for extra trouble.
A group of Maggots with large hairy paddle-palps were frantically milling around the crack, trying to stop the crack with their paddles.
That'll help the Maggots to believe we're heading in the opposite direction.
Phylla had some Maggots for the road on that long staircase to Valhalla.