单词 | bluebottle fly |
释义 | > as lemmasbluebottle fly 3. More fully bluebottle fly. A dark blue blowfly of the family Calliphoridae; spec. the large Calliphora vomitaria, which is abundant worldwide. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > calliphora or musca vomitoria (blue-bottle) blue fly1665 bluebottle1703 meat fly1822 1703 T. Brown et al. Contin. Lett. from Dead to Living (new ed.) 156 A Man could not walk London-streets without having his Nose persecuted by Gnats, Wasps, or Blue-bottles. c1720 M. Prior Flies in Poems (1741) 158 A Fly upon the Chariot-Pole Cries out ‘What Blue-bottle alive Did ever with such fury drive?’ 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxxi. 37 Humming like flies around the newest blaze, The bluest of bluebottles you e'er saw. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 199 The buzzing of a stout blue-bottle fly. 1875 ‘S. Beauchamp’ N. Hamilton II. 155 You surely don't mean to say you are going to fish with blue-bottles? 1904 A. Ross Life Sketches iii. 29 He brushed off the blue bottles that settled on his own pate. 1947 Times 18 Aug. 5/4 Can we be surprised at epidemics when our butchers' and fishmongers' shops are crawling with flies and bluebottles? 1993 A. Chaudhuri Afternoon Raag xxiii. 108 Midday brings the smell of ripening jackfruit, the buzz and gleam of bluebottle flies, the fragrance of mango blooms. 2011 J. M. Greer Apocalypse Not p. xvii If female bluebottles find male bluebottles with longer wings more attractive, more bluebottles in each generation will have longer wings. < as lemmas |
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