maggotlike

English

Etymology

maggot +‎ -like

Adjective

maggotlike (comparative more maggotlike, superlative most maggotlike)

  1. Resembling a maggot.
    • 1876, George Bowdler Buckton, Monograph of the British Aphides:
      A wormlike, or else more commonly a maggotlike, creature, according to the species of the parasite, hatches from this egg […]
    • 1998, L David Mech, The Wolves of Denali:
      Once we had the photos, it was just a matter of counting all the maggotlike images of caribou on the white snow background.
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