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Bluebottle   /blˈubˌɔtəl/   Listen
noun
blue-bottle, Bluebottle  n.  
1.
(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 in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
Synonyms: cornflower, bachelor's button.
2.
(Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.





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"Bluebottle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Phineas Cophagus, who never suffered a patient to escape him. The shop had the usual allowance of green, yellow, and blue bottles; and in hot weather, from our vicinity, we were visited by no small proportion of bluebottle flies. We had a white horse in one window, and a brown horse in the other, to announce to the drovers that we supplied horse-medicines. And we had all the patent medicines in the known world, even to the "all-sufficient medicine for mankind" of Mr Enouy; having ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat
... after," as the bluebottle said when, after circling three times about the breakfast-table, he alighted on ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 11, 1891 • Various
... the farmer's body and the tree, he had no difficulty in finishing the work he had begun. Dancing like an elf with the line in his hand, he spun round and round the tree till the line was wound round to its very last extremity, and the farmer looked like some big bluebottle fly entangled in the fine meshes of a spider's web. Still he slept on, and with a delighted chuckle Teddy sped back to his little companion; her eyes were dancing with mirth, and she clapped her hands ...
— Teddy's Button • Amy Le Feuvre


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