bluebottle
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- noun
- /ˈbluːˌbɒtəl/
- UK
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mosca azul
- A swarm of bluebottles charged out, droning like provoked wasps.
- bluebottle fly
- buzzing bluebottles
Examples
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The loud buzzing of the bluebottle fly can be heard near the compost pile.
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I can track a bluebottle fly right up your nose.
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Why, I never even killed a bluebottle.
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They looked at the ceiling, watched a bluebottle trying to fly through a window, and listened to the hustle and bustle outside.
Fiction book (1994) -
We won't stay there long, but while you are there, you must learn to be happy when the baby cries and gives you something to do, or grateful when a morning dove visits the courtyard for bread, or pleased when a bluebottle stirs up a breeze with its wings.
Fiction book (1997) -
The roan twitches an ear free from bluebottle flies while gazing now and again through the glassy shards of a second-story window at a moonlit world.
Fiction book (1992) -
A bluebottle landed on the picnic table, attracted by the leftover food.
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While cleaning the kitchen, I noticed a bluebottle buzzing around the sink.
Synonyms
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7.8
A large shiny fly that lays eggs in dead animals, dung, or wounds
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A large fly with a shiny blue-green body that lays eggs on dead animals and in wounds
A common blue blowfly that makes a loud buzzing sound and lives near dead animals or trash
A common fly with a shiny green body often found near rubbish
A small shiny green fly often found near garbage or dead meat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bluebottle breaks into blue and bottle because the fly's shiny, bright blue body looked a little like a tiny 'bottle', so people named the noisy, buzzing insect a bluebottle.