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maggotless

adj

Etymology

From maggot + -less.

  1. derived from *maþô✻
  2. derived from *maþō✻
  3. inherited from magot
  4. suffixed as maggotless — “maggot + less”

Definitions

  1. Free of maggots.

    • […] a mixed group of about twenty-five beetles […] were left to starve from 5:00 P.M. one evening until 11:00 A.M. the next morning. A piece of maggotless carrion was then put in the cage.
    • Along with a basket of magnificent, almost maggotless imperial mushrooms, her cousin Lovise at the forester’s lodge sent her the requested varieties wrapped in a knotted cloth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for maggotless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA