| 单词 | greenbottle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreenbottle greenbottle n. any of several blowflies of a metallic green colour, of the genus Lucilia (family Calliphoridae); esp. the common L. caesar and L. sericata; cf. bluebottle n. 3.In quot. 1828 in a figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > musca caesar greenbottle1828 1828 Life in West or Curtain Drawn II. ii. 35 The large blue bottle, the green bottle, the useful and industrious bee, and other ‘flies’ of the like kind. 1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 1 June 344/1 Amongst the most familiar of these are the green-bottle, the blue-bottle or flesh-fly, the larder-fly.., the biting house-fly. 1915 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Hunting Wasps xvi. 280 It is a golden-green Fly, a Green-bottle (Lucilia Cæsar), who lives on putrid flesh. 1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) v. 121 Next come the specialized flesh-flies such as Lucilia, the greenbottle. < as lemmas |
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