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greenbottle en · NOUN

Etymology

From green + bottle. From resemblance to shiny colored-glass bottles.

Meanings

  1. Any of various blowflies of the genus Lucilia that are a brilliant metallic green in colour.

Forms

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Coordinates

bluebottle

Deriveds

greenbottle fly

Hypernyms

bottlefly · blowfly

Synonyms

green-bottle fly · green bottle fly