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# maggot

«maggot» in Mova's school dictionary: **The soft, pale, legless young form (larva) of a fly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a maggot, maggots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The soft, pale, legless young form (larva) of a fly, which hatches from an egg and feeds on rotting food or dead animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#m1)

2) (old-fashioned, insult) A rude name for a worthless person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons maggots are part of a fly's life cycle: egg, larva (maggot), pupa, adult fly. They clean up nature by eating rotting things. Anglers use them as bait; doctors sometimes use clean maggots to clean wounds. Phrases: «crawling with maggots».

### examples

- The rubbish bin was crawling with maggots in the hot weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x1)
- A maggot turns into a pupa and then into a fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x2)
- Grandad uses maggots as bait when he goes fishing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x3)
- Maggots help break down dead animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x4)
- Doctors sometimes use special clean maggots to clean wounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x5)
- We learnt about the life cycle of a fly: egg, maggot, pupa, fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x6)
- The old apple had a maggot inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x7)
- The peasants knocked them down and flung them into the fire, not allowing so much as a single maggot to creep away! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/#x8)

### note

Countable; plural «maggots». A maggot is a larva, not a worm — a common mistake. Caterpillars are the larvae of butterflies and moths; maggots are the larvae of flies.

### In the corpora

- [How much less man, that is a worm! and the son of man, that is a maggot!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.653/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «maggot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maggot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.