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bluebottle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bachelor's button, centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
| Type of | flower |
bluebottle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | calliphora vicina |
| Type of | blow fly, blowfly |
Examples of bluebottle
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The astronomer was in mid-flow when a bluebottle flew into his mouth.
From the guardian.co.uk
Once when a bluebottle flew into his mouth while broadcasting he simply swallowed it and carried on.
From the express.co.uk
It lies in ambush on an old dry lump of pony dung, waiting for a hapless bluebottle or butterfly to come into range.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I went into a petshop to buy a bluebottle.
From the guardian.co.uk
A bluebottle appears so big it could star in its own creature feature, perhaps The Bluebottle that Ate Bondi.
From the smh.com.au
Maggot of a bluebottle fly.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Or unless you chartered a helicopter and hovered dangerously close to the tops of New York's buildings like a pesky giant bluebottle.
From the independent.co.uk
As a clerk at the Board of Education he was so bored he tied a bluebottle to a length of silk and kept it on his desk as a pet.
From the metro.co.uk
Was that a squirrel or a bluebottle?
From the guardian.co.uk
- Cornflower: an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
- Blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight
- Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise whilst flying; Various marine creatures of the order Physalia, such as Physalia physalis the Portuguese Man o' War
- A British term for policeman that may have derived from Cockney rhyming slang. 'Bottle' is an abbreviation of 'bottle and glass', which is rhyming slang for 'arse'. (See also Bottles).
- The common name for the Blue Corn-flower (Centaurea cyanus). See notes on herbs.
- A blue coloured potch, more commonly found with boulder opal.
- Physalia physalis is not a single animal but a colony of different polyps (kinds of highly modified individuals). Bluebottles feed using their long, stinging tentacles to ensnare small crustaceans and other members of the surface plankton. ...
- A bright, metallic-blue blowfly.
