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Meanings of bluebottle in English

Portuguese
aciano
Catalan
blavet
Spanish
centaurea cyanus
Wikidata

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

        aciano
        Wikidata

        A jelly-like marine invertebrate of the family Physaliidae.

              Catalan
              mosca saballonera

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

                    mosca saballonera
                    Usage of bluebottle in English
                    1
                    The bluebottle comes to my apparatus, guided by scent rather than sight.
                    The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                    2
                    The larvae of the bluebottle hatch within two days in the warm weather.
                    The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                    3
                    Great swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed lazily in the warm sunshine.
                    Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
                    4
                    I next place in the cage a bluebottle, one only, to avoid confusion.
                    The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                    5
                    Not even the presence of his bishop could make him spare a bluebottle.
                    Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
                    6
                    Let us continue to study the bluebottle, while varying our means of information.
                    The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                    7
                    Sean felt like a child who's just captured a bluebottle.
                    Fresh
                    8
                    Here swarm in common the grubs of the greenbottle, the flesh fly and the bluebottle.
                    The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                    9
                    July, the month of the bluebottle, is upon us.
                    The Irish Times
                    10
                    He studies the bluebottle, the casual landings and take-offs.
                    The Irish Times
                    11
                    There is a brilliant-colored fly which comes buzzing about the meat-safe-thebluebottle-doyou know her?
                    The History of a Mouthful of Bread / And its effect on the organ...
                    12
                    Come here, Hudelist, and look at this bluebottle fly.
                    Andreas Hofer: An Historical Novel
                    13
                    Yes, of a certainty, the offspring of the flesh fly and the bluebottle are expeditious workers.
                    The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
                    14
                    Lord Loudwater dipped his pen in the ink, transfixed a struggling bluebottle, and drew it out.
                    The Loudwater Mystery
                    15
                    The bluebottle buzzed, buzzed noisily against the windowpane.
                    Of Human Bondage
                    16
                    There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead bluebottle on the window-sill.
                    The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
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