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Bluebottle

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Noun

1. bachelor's button, bluebottle, centaurea cyanus, cornflower

an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers

2. bluebottle, calliphora vicina

blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Bluebottle

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noun
1.  another name for the blowfly
2. 
any of various blue-flowered plants, esp the cornflower
3. British an informal word for a policeman
4. Australian and New Zealand an informal name for Portuguese man-of-war

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Bluebottle

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noun
1. 
any of various plants with blue, bottle-shaped flowers, as the cornflower, grape hyacinth, or closed gentian
2. 
any of a genus (Calliphora) of metallic-blue blowflies

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Bluebottle

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n.
Any of several blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have a bright metallic-blue body and lay their eggs in decaying organic matter.

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