maggots
Meaning of maggots
plural noun
- a soft-bodied legless larva of a fly or other insect, found in decaying matter.
the maggots attack the roots of the developing cabbages
- a whimsical or strange idea.
late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of dialect maddock, from Old Norse mathkr, of Germanic origin.
Information about maggots
- It is a name.
- The singular form of maggots is: maggot.
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Hyphenation of maggots
mag-gots
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- maggots is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
maggots synonyms
Meaning the larva of an insect, especially a beetle:
Meaning the active immature form of an insect, especially one that differs greatly from the adult and forms the stage between egg and pupa, e.g. a caterpillar or grub:
Meaning the larva of a butterfly or moth, which has a segmented wormlike body with three pairs of true legs and several pairs of appendages similar to legs:
Words that rhyme with maggots
cagots, fagots, magots, faggots, bigots, frigots, gigots, jigots, saligots, spigots, ingots, lingots, argots, ergots, escargots
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