grub
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6.1
- noun
- /ɡrʌb/
:
larva
- Sometimes men have eaten worms and grubs and roots.
- grubs are larvae
- grubs feed
- witchetty grub
And the tongue goes in and it snags the grub, which looks like a mealworm or a snags the grub and pulls it out and eats it.
- And the tongue goes in and it snags the grub, which looks like a mealworm or a snags the grub and pulls it out and eats it.
- They were told to pay attention to the grubs.
Examples
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Also, they unearthed termite queens that looked remarkably like common grub worms.
Fiction book (2002) -
Once, when they had fallen out of love, he had given her a box of beetles and grubs.
Fiction book (2002) -
I got two more grubs for you there!
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"In Africa, they eat grubs and things."
Fiction book (1998) -
The apples in your cider probably had a grub or two in them as well.
Academic text (2011) -
I've tried locusts and grubs in Africa.
Fiction book (1999) -
Within a few days, the egg hatches into a grub that devours the paralyzed prey alive.
Academic text (2002) -
Grubs, or insects at the larval stage, are eaten worldwide, from Australia to Korea.
Academic text (2011) -
At special times, we might put on some Aboriginal meat, witchetty grubs, and crocodile meat, and all sorts of stuff.
Academic text (1995) -
The bird found a grub under the bark of the tree and quickly ate it.
Compounds
- Offensive
Writers who make low-quality books or poems to earn money rather than for art
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grub for the soft, wormlike larva comes from an old word for a creature you 'dig up' in the soil, so remember it as the thick white worm you pull out of the ground.