单词	bluebottle
释义	bluebottle /ˈbluːbɒt(ə)l / noun 1A common blowfly with a metallic blue body, the female of which often comes into houses searching for a suitable food source on which to lay her eggs. Calliphora vomitoria, family Calliphoridae. Blowflies, such as greenbottles and bluebottles, are attracted to your rabbit and its housing by the presence of faeces, urine, rotting vegetables and open wounds.... Would we do the same for baby rats, or baby cockroaches or baby bluebottles? My kitchen window is at the back of the house and if I leave it open the house is filled with brown flies - they are not the normal bluebottles but flies which feed on sewage. 2Australian & South African The Portuguese man-of-war.I list it along with bluebottles, broken glass, backwash and muggers - the last-mentioned not actually in the surf but lurking in the nearby sanddunes, waiting for an opportune moment to interface with you and your valuables.... If you go in there, there are always dangers in the sea - bluebottles, whatever. At midday I took myself off to Coogee but the cold water and the beached bluebottles put me off the idea of swimming. So named because of its blue balloon-like float 3British The wild cornflower.As a bonus, here are some wildflowers growing next to a field. The red one is a poppy, and the blue ones are cornflowers or bluebottles.... But this place being open was full of flowers, such lovely azure cornflowers which the people call bluebottles. 4British informal, dated A police officer.When the bluebottles arrested him it was found that he had a bucket under his chair...
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