Usually means: Larval stage of drone fly.
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  1. rat-tailed maggot: Merriam-Webster
  2. rat-tailed maggot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rat-tailed maggot: Wiktionary
  4. rat-tailed maggot: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. rat-tailed maggot: Dictionary.com
  6. Rat-tailed maggot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. rat-tailed maggot: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (rat-tailed maggot)

noun:  The aquatic larva of a hoverfly in either the tribe Eristalini or the tribe Sericomyini, which breathes through a tail-like air tube.

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