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Meanings of maggots in English

Russian
опарыш
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Non-standard term for various flies.

        опарыш
        Usage of maggots in English
        1
        Car parts, batteries, food - especially food that has maggots in it.
        Radio NZ
        2
        Plus, might maggots be able to ease the world's landfill problems too?
        Radio NZ
        3
        Larvae or maggots are able to invade natural cavities and induce myiasis.
        Pubmed
        4
        In no wise: maggots, caterpillars and slugs never touch the resplendent mushroom.
        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
        5
        Flies swarm over the exposed bodies, which are soon crawling with maggots.
        Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
        6
        We could sense how its innards were collapsing while maggots seethed within.
        Shadows in Bronze
        7
        For the second time, the maggots veer round and retrace their steps.
        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
        8
        You been on them like maggots on a corpse, hundreds o' you.
        A Dance with Dragons
        9
        The maggots, he thought, might be the half-developed progeny of these flies.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
        10
        But they would definitely notice once the corpses began crawling with maggots.
        The Departure
        11
        Welsh researchers have found that maggots may even eradicate methicillin-resistant straphyllococcus aureus.
        The Irish Times
        12
        He long concealed a horrible ulcer in his foot, swarming with maggots.
        The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
        13
        Where it had lain were a few maggots, manifesting an imbecile activity.
        Can Such Things Be?
        14
        The hillside seemed to be breeding Frenchmen as a cheese breeds maggots.
        Jonathan strange and mr norrell
        15
        For a small fee, I can take care of maggots for you.
        G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
        16
        His head is as full of maggots as a pastoral poet's flock.
        Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
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