Cheese maggot
1cheese maggot — noun see cheese skipper …
2cheese skipper — noun or cheese hopper or cheese maggot : the cheese fly larva that lives in cheese, ham, and smoked beef and that can jump several inches * * * cheeseˈhopper or cheese skipper noun A …
3Cheese fly — Cheese flies Piophila casei Scientific classification Kingdom …
4Maggot — This article is about the fly larvae. For other uses, see Maggot (disambiguation) Maggots feeding on carrion. In everyday speech the word maggot means the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachyceran… …
5Cheese fly — Fly Fly, n.; pl. {Flies} (fl[imac]z). [OE. flie, flege, AS. fl[=y]ge, fle[ o]ge, fr. fle[ o]gan to fly; akin to D. vlieg, OHG. flioga, G. fliege, Icel. & Sw. fluga, Dan. flue. [root] 84. See {Fly}, v. i.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any winged insect; esp …
6Maggot — A soft bodied wormlike larva of a fly that lays its eggs in living or especially in decaying tissues. The living or rotting material furnishes heat for the hatching of the eggs and food for the newly hatched maggots. Certain blowfly maggots… …
7maggot — n. 1 a larva, esp. of the cheese fly or bluebottle. 2 a whimsical fancy. Derivatives: maggoty adj. Etymology: ME perh. alt. f. maddock, earlier mathek f. ON mathkr: cf. MAWKISH …
8maggot cheese — noun casu marzu …
9Fly maggot — Fly Fly, n.; pl. {Flies} (fl[imac]z). [OE. flie, flege, AS. fl[=y]ge, fle[ o]ge, fr. fle[ o]gan to fly; akin to D. vlieg, OHG. flioga, G. fliege, Icel. & Sw. fluga, Dan. flue. [root] 84. See {Fly}, v. i.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any winged insect; esp …
10Scomberesox saurus — Skipper Skip per, n. 1. One who, or that which, skips. [1913 Webster] 2. A young, thoughtless person. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zo[ o]l.) The saury ({Scomberesox saurus}). [1913 Webster] 4. The cheese maggot. See {Cheese fly}, under {Cheese}.… …
