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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
/ ˈːˌɒə /
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of bluebottle1
Example Sentences
"It could also attract vermin into our houses as well as flies and bluebottles."
An ugly bluebottle crept along his cheek before buzzing off.
I brushed at a bluebottle buzzing at my head.
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.
“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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