small worm or maggot

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• worm —   Ko e, ilo.   See army worm, bristle worm, cutworm, maggot, measuring worm, pinworm.     Annelid worm, muiona.     Small worm in sand, moeone.     Worm offal, popopo.     Worm eaten, huhuhu.     A worm shell, po apo ai …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

• maggot —    In the late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries, a maggot or maggotpate described a whimsical or capricious person. A modern speaker would think only of the small worm like creature, the grub of a fly. The man who calls another ‘you mean …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• worm — [wʉrm] n. [ME < OE wyrm, serpent, dragon, akin to Ger wurm < IE base * wer , to turn, bend > WARP, L vermis, worm] 1. any of many slender, soft bodied animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground, in water, or as parasites …   English World dictionary

• worm — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. earthworm, angleworm; maggot, larva, grub, caterpillar; insect; crawler, nightcrawler; flatworm, platyhelminth, tapeworm, cestode, nematode, round worm, ascarid, pinworm, annelid; wretch; screw,… …   English dictionary for students

• maggot — mag|got [ˈmægət] n [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: From a Scandinavian language] a small creature like a ↑worm that is the young form of a ↑fly and lives in decaying food, flesh etc …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• maggot — noun (C) a small creature like a worm that is the young form of a fly and lives in decaying food, flesh etc …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Apple maggot — Taxobox name = Apple maggot regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Diptera familia = Tephritidae subfamilia = Trypetinae tribus = Carpomyiini genus = Rhagoletis species = R. pomonella binomial = Rhagoletis pomonella… …   Wikipedia

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• Forensic entomology — is the application and study of insect and other arthropod biology to criminal matters. Forensic entomology is primarily associated with death investigations however it may also be used to detect drugs and poisons, determine the location of an… …   Wikipedia

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