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bluebottle
[ bloo-bot-l ]
noun
- a composite plant, Centaurea cyanus, having narrow leaves and blue flower heads.
- Australian. Portuguese man-of-war.
bluebottle
/ ˈbluːˌbɒtəl /
noun
- another name for the blowfly
- any of various blue-flowered plants, esp the cornflower
- an informal word for a policeman
- an informal name for Portuguese man-of-war
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bluebottle1
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Example Sentences
"It could also attract vermin into our houses as well as flies and bluebottles."
From BBC
An ugly bluebottle crept along his cheek before buzzing off.
From Literature
I brushed at a bluebottle buzzing at my head.
From Literature
My mother laughed at me one fateful beach day as she pulled a Pacific man o’ war jellyfish — known in Australia as a bluebottle — from my body as I screamed.
From New York Times
“Personally, I had always thought that a big, juicy, caught-in-the-web bluebottle was the finest dinner in the world—until I tasted this.”
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