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noun

blue-bottle, Bluebottle n.

(Bot.) An annual Eurasian plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers

Synonyms: cornflower, bachelor's button.

(Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.

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Etymology of 'Bluebottle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of this opportunity to mop her forehead with her blue and white pocket handkerchief, and wrestle with her bonnet's unconquerable tendency to slip off behind, and the clergyman passed the question on to her husband, who fixed his eye on a bluebottle buzzing in one of the windows, and jerked out what ...

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