bluebottle
/ˈbluːˌbɒtl/noun
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- a 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反吐丽蝇。
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- Calliphora vomitoria, family Calliphoridae.拉丁名Calliphora vomitoria,丽蝇科。
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- Austral. & S. African the Portuguese man-of-war〈澳, 南非〉僧帽水母。
- ORIGIN: so named because of the organism's blue balloon-like float.
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- Brit. the wild cornflower〈英〉野生矢车菊。
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- Brit. informal, dated a police officer〈英, 非正式, 旧〉警察。