maggotless
English
Adjective
maggotless (comparative more maggotless, superlative most maggotless)
- Free of maggots.
- 1927, Brandt F. Steele, “Notes on the feeding habits of carrion beetles,” Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Volume 35, March, 1927, p. 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, Ralph Manheim (translator), The Flounder by Günter Grass, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, “The Sixth Month,” p. 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.
- 1927, Brandt F. Steele, “Notes on the feeding habits of carrion beetles,” Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Volume 35, March, 1927, p. 78,
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