maggotlike

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"A wormlike, or else more commonly a maggotlike, creature, according to the species of the parasite, hatches from this egg […]"
"Once we had the photos, it was just a matter of counting all the maggotlike images of caribou on the white snow background."

Etymology tree English maggot Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English maggotlike From maggot + -like.

more maggotlike (comparative) most maggotlike (superlative)

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What does maggotlike mean?

Resembling a maggot.

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