greenbottle

/ ˈɡriːnˌbɒtəl /

noun

1. a common dipterous fly, Lucilia caesar, that has a dark greenish body with a metallic lustre and lays its eggs in carrion: family Calliphoridae

Example Sentences

Blue colors are common in tarantulas, such as this greenbottle blue tarantula.

From National Geographic

Bluebottles, greenbottles, and all the flies of metallic luster were gathered at the Lucullan feast of corruption.

From Project Gutenberg

In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material.

From The Guardian

I am speaking of an ash-gray fly, the greenbottle's superior in size, with brown streaks on her back and silver gleams on her abdomen.

From Project Gutenberg

I have left at the bottom of a glass the best part of a hard-boiled egg from which I have taken a few bits of white intended for the greenbottle maggots.

From Project Gutenberg