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Definition of bluebottle in English: bluebottlenoun ˈbluːbɒt(ə)lˈbluˌbɑdl 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. 反吐丽蝇 Calliphora vomitoria, family Calliphoridae Example sentencesExamples - He noticed several bluebottle flies gathering in a panel at the side of the bath.
- 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.
- ‘There used to be halves of bacon hanging outside, whole half pigs, with lots of flies and bluebottles buzzing around,’ she recalls.
- I even open windows for bluebottles and talk them out.
- So I was strolling down the hall when I saw a bluebottle flying towards me at something approaching waist height.
- For all that, though, there was a certain amusing surreality to the show, with jabbering rats, crazed socks and giant bluebottles all regularly putting in appearances.
- 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.
- In fact, the possibility of being savaged seemed so low on her sense of possibilities that she was almost instantly distracted by a bluebottle banging against the window.
- Would we do the same for baby rats, or baby cockroaches or baby bluebottles?
- In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
- It sits, not quite dead, but buzzing like a bluebottle under a pint glass, its battery acid eating away the carpet.
- On her right wrist she wore a light bracelet of a similar design, but this had a large blue stone imbedded in it: a single bluebottle trapped in a silver filigree web.
- On the shag, a halo of bluebottle flies buzzing above, lay a great steaming pile.
- Hundreds of açaí fruits dangle from branches in clusters that look like nests of bluebottles.
- Smashing their way in, officers were met with a sickening stench and dead bluebottles covering the stairs.
- To the others in the car she could have been following a circling bluebottle.
- We had to continually step over it and we had to keep our mouths shut in case we swallowed some of the hundreds of bluebottles swarming around the dirt.
- Last year the residents living nearest to the field complained of bluebottles getting into their homes.
- Apart from the threat of sharks, the biggest problem for competitors has been rough seas and bluebottles.
- He said the seven-day collection timetable, introduced in the 1930s, was brought in because the life cycle of the bluebottle was ten days.
2South African Australian The Portuguese man-of-war. 〈澳,南非〉僧帽水母 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
3British The wild cornflower. 〈英〉野生矢车菊 Example sentencesExamples - 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 dated, informal A police officer. 〈英,非正式,旧〉警察 Example sentencesExamples - When the bluebottles arrested him it was found that he had a bucket under his chair...
Definition of bluebottle in US English: bluebottlenounˈbluˌbɑdlˈblo͞oˌbädl 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. 反吐丽蝇 Calliphora vomitoria, family Calliphoridae Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- So I was strolling down the hall when I saw a bluebottle flying towards me at something approaching waist height.
- We had to continually step over it and we had to keep our mouths shut in case we swallowed some of the hundreds of bluebottles swarming around the dirt.
- It sits, not quite dead, but buzzing like a bluebottle under a pint glass, its battery acid eating away the carpet.
- He noticed several bluebottle flies gathering in a panel at the side of the bath.
- I even open windows for bluebottles and talk them out.
- Smashing their way in, officers were met with a sickening stench and dead bluebottles covering the stairs.
- Apart from the threat of sharks, the biggest problem for competitors has been rough seas and bluebottles.
- To the others in the car she could have been following a circling bluebottle.
- Hundreds of açaí fruits dangle from branches in clusters that look like nests of bluebottles.
- ‘There used to be halves of bacon hanging outside, whole half pigs, with lots of flies and bluebottles buzzing around,’ she recalls.
- On the shag, a halo of bluebottle flies buzzing above, lay a great steaming pile.
- For all that, though, there was a certain amusing surreality to the show, with jabbering rats, crazed socks and giant bluebottles all regularly putting in appearances.
- In fact, the possibility of being savaged seemed so low on her sense of possibilities that she was almost instantly distracted by a bluebottle banging against the window.
- He said the seven-day collection timetable, introduced in the 1930s, was brought in because the life cycle of the bluebottle was ten days.
- 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.
- Would we do the same for baby rats, or baby cockroaches or baby bluebottles?
- Last year the residents living nearest to the field complained of bluebottles getting into their homes.
- In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
- On her right wrist she wore a light bracelet of a similar design, but this had a large blue stone imbedded in it: a single bluebottle trapped in a silver filigree web.
2British The wild cornflower. 〈英〉野生矢车菊 Example sentencesExamples - But this place being open was full of flowers, such lovely azure cornflowers which the people call bluebottles.
- 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.
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