Insect Infestation Terminology

2 words in this vocabulary list

adjective covered with fly eggs

  • The meat was left out in the sun and became flyblown.
  • Ew, that garbage can is all flyblown!
  • I'm not eating at that dive, it's totally flyblown.
  • Her reputation was flyblown after the scandal.

adjective describing something as being infested with maggots

  • The rotten meat was infested with maggoty larvae.
  • Eww, that garbage can is full of maggoty stuff.
  • I can't believe you ate that maggoty sandwich!
  • His mind was a maggoty mess of negative thoughts.