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Blowfly with iridescent blue body
Answer for the clue "Blowfly with iridescent blue body ", 10 letters:
bluebottle
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bluebottle can mean:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bluebottle \Blue"bot`tle\, blue-bottle \blue-bottle\, 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Big bluebottle flies were already buzzing around their wounds; it was very quiet here, and that was the only sound. ▪ He caught a six pound bluebottle ! ▪ I've just swallowed a bluebottle ! ▪ One great bluebottle circled his ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower , bachelor's button , Centaurea cyanus ] blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight [syn: ...
Usage examples of bluebottle.
Bluebottle is now scribbling poetry, squawking his inanities and laughing at the badly drawn cartoons he is scratching on our one and only map.
Already they were stirring, bluebottles and greenbottles and horseflies not too finicky to feast on human flesh as well.
And he that has fetched and carried will explain how it has fared with him in his dealings, and if he has brought the wrong sort of sugar or thread he will wheedle away the displeasure from that leaden face as a pastrycook girl will drive bluebottles off a stale bun.
Most blowflies, bluebottle flies and flesh flies buzz around the world looking for garbage - although some go in for rather more exotic fare, like parasitizing snails or earthworms!
When I received the notice that I had been cashiered, Meeley turned me over to the bluebottles.
He had been tagged several times by the bluebottles of Flisten on suspicion of rape-murder but there was no proof.
The bluebottles also do this kind of thing but not on the scale of the Apparatus which is mostly political.
He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the odor, which filled the wood around and was already attracting ants and bluebottles.
He said, "Don't you be too long or I'll get a fender bash from the local bluebottles!
Citizens, bluebottles, officials, we must have about two thousand of them, anything you want.
Flying ants and wasps, bees and bluebottles, butterflies and mosquitoes fought airborne war against a thousand predators, aspises and dheri that snapped at them on the wing.
He had a screen cage full of flies -- big bluebottles that were slow and easy to work with and easy for the crowd to see and hear.
He'd jump all over the stage swiping wildly at the air, come within a frog hair of splatting his fist into the chafing dish a dozen times, get the girl volunteer to flap her arms to flush the little buzzers his way, and all the while talking his talk about the similarities and differences between Herefords and bluebottles until the audience was half-convinced that he was never going to catch the fly but was laughing anyway and jumpy as a drunk with a glass of milk waiting for him to smack a bare hand into that pile of warm dung.
Had the larva lived, it would have matured into a bluebottle Calliphora vicina, a blow fly.
A black-and-white jumping spider had climbed onto the circlet, hunting a bluebottle fly that buzzed about.