bluebottlenoun詞源 1

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  A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus.

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  Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.

  • The flies that troubled me most were a large kind of blue-bottle or blow-fly. These settled in swarms on my bird skins when first put out to dry, filling their plumage with masses of eggs, which, if neglected, the next day produced maggots.
  • The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".
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  A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.

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  Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium, also called triangles, etc.

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  derogatoryslangA police officer.

  • I will have you as soundly swing’d for this, you bluebottle rogue!
  • […] comic writers […] have never failed to make capital out of the New Police, Peel's Raw-Lobsters, Peelers, Blue Bottles, &c., &c.
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  derogatoryobsoleteA bluestocking.

  • To-morrow there is a party of purple at the “blue” Miss Berry’s. Shall I go? um! — I don’t much affect your blue-bottles ; — but one ought to be civil.
  • There appears to be a growing disposition on the part of the literary and dramatic blue-bottles of this city to get up a national drama and to manufacture a new race of actors.

bluebottlenoun詞源 2

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  A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.