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Meanings of bluebottle in English
An annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers.
A jelly-like marine invertebrate of the family Physaliidae.
Synonyms
Examples for "cornflower"
Examples for "cornflower"
1
Red hair, spilling past her waist, delicate skin and a cornflower-blue dress.
2
The khaki of the British mingled with the cornflower blue of the French.
3
The chintz had a cornflower design that repeated all these colors.
4
He ducked his head round the door and his cornflower-blue gaze caught hers.
5
Blond hair, fair skin, a pert nose, and cornflower blue eyes.
1
Sometimes called bachelor's button.
2
The little yellow diurnal moth commonly known as "the wanderer" has a partiality for the nectar of the " bachelor's button," as yellow as itself.
3
At least I couldn't find the Bachelor's Button, nor the London Pride, nor the Pansies, and I saw the Lavender-bush on the rubbish-heap.
1
So instead of puny spring-sown cornflowers ( Centaurea cyanus) forced to hurtle swiftly into summer bloom, you get large robust plants as high as your chest.
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mosca saballonera Usage of bluebottle in English
1
The bluebottle comes to my apparatus, guided by scent rather than sight.
2
The larvae of the bluebottle hatch within two days in the warm weather.
3
Great swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed lazily in the warm sunshine.
4
I next place in the cage a bluebottle, one only, to avoid confusion.
5
Not even the presence of his bishop could make him spare a bluebottle.
6
Let us continue to study the bluebottle, while varying our means of information.
7
Sean felt like a child who's just captured a bluebottle.
8
Here swarm in common the grubs of the greenbottle, the flesh fly and the bluebottle.
9
July, the month of the bluebottle, is upon us.
10
He studies the bluebottle, the casual landings and take-offs.
11
There is a brilliant-colored fly which comes buzzing about the meat-safe-thebluebottle-doyou know her?
12
Come here, Hudelist, and look at this bluebottle fly.
13
Yes, of a certainty, the offspring of the flesh fly and the bluebottle are expeditious workers.
14
Lord Loudwater dipped his pen in the ink, transfixed a struggling bluebottle, and drew it out.
15
The bluebottle buzzed, buzzed noisily against the windowpane.
16
There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead bluebottle on the window-sill.
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