blue fly en · NOUN
Meanings
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A blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria.
Out of the upper part of the trunck grew the two wings […]: these in a blue Fly, were much longer then the body, but in other kind of Flies they are of very differing proportions to the body.
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLII:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blue flies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |