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Bluebottle   /blˈubˌɔtəl/   Listen
Bluebottle

noun
1.
An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers.  Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower.
2.
Blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight.  Synonym: Calliphora vicina.






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"Bluebottle" Quotes from Famous Books



... want of the entree to something like a home, because the upper crust of Mycening considered him as "only Dr. Kingston's partner," and the Kingstons themselves had the sort of sense that he was too much for them which makes a spider dislike to have a bluebottle ...
— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge

... 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 ...
— Zoe • Evelyn Whitaker



Words linked to "Bluebottle" :   Calliphora vicina, blow fly, flower, genus Centaurea, blowfly, Centaurea



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