maggot
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It is the larval, or maggot, stage of a metallic-looking blowfly known as Cochliomyia hominivorax.
From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025
Also on this fractured fairy tale’s jampacked menu are human-sized animal costumes, arcade graphics, pratfalls, pole dancing, adorable maggot puppets, Rube Goldberg designs, expressionist sequences and even a bar brawl with rodents.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024
This enzyme protects the maggot from infections, protecting us in the process.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024
Scientists have compiled many more nematode connectomes, as well as brain maps of a marine annelid worm, a tadpole, a maggot and an adult fruit fly.
From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023
“You’ve got a maggot in your brain, Tjaden, just you run along to the latrine quick, and get your head clear, so that you don’t talk like a two-year-old.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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