maggotless

English

Etymology

maggot +‎ -less

Adjective

maggotless (comparative more maggotless, superlative most maggotless)

  1. Free of maggots.
    • 1927 March, Brandt F. Steele, “Notes on the feeding habits of carrion beetles”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume 35, page 78:
      […] a mixed group of about twenty-five beetles […] were left to starve from 5:00 P.M. one evening until 11:00 A.M. the next morning. A piece of maggotless carrion was then put in the cage.
    • 1978, Günter Grass, “The Sixth Month”, in Ralph Manheim, transl., The Flounder‎, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 372:
      Along with a basket of magnificent, almost maggotless imperial mushrooms, her cousin Lovise at the forester’s lodge sent her the requested varieties wrapped in a knotted cloth.
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