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Blue-bottle   Listen
noun
blue-bottle, Bluebottle  n.  
1.
(Bot.) An annual Eurasian plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
Synonyms: cornflower, bachelor's button.
2.
(Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.





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"Blue-bottle" Quotes from Famous Books



... meaningful. For the rest the birds mostly make their appointed noises. But I did enjoy the skylark's song. And once Fenn had put in one song it was inevitable that he would put in another, for which the bluebottle was ...
— Featherland - How the Birds lived at Greenlawn • George Manville Fenn
... telling you a small portion of its history here; a history you must know, which reveals a miracle still more wonderful than the transformation of the little tadpole into the frog! There is a brilliant-colored fly which comes buzzing about the meat-safe—the bluebottle—do you know her? It is on her account that we put large covers of iron wire over the dishes of meat; but, perhaps, you never troubled yourself ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace
... scene in "Faust" is a well-known illustration of the employment of the centaury or bluebottle for testing the faith of lovers, for Margaret selects it as the floral indication whence she may learn the truth ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
... you before you pull faces, you old bluebottle! Can't you trust me by now to get up a decent rag? Yes, I'm offended! All right, I'll accept apologies. Now if you're really listening, I'll explain. You know the gipsies are camping down by the river. Everybody in the school has noticed their caravans, and realizes they're ...
— The Madcap of the School • Angela Brazil
... about on the ground spinning their webs around him, and then they began to jump from tree to tree. Valentine began to have a creepy feeling up and down his back, for he didn't relish the idea of being caught in a spider's web like a bluebottle fly. He wondered why Cob-Handle hadn't warned him of the danger, and then he remembered that the case-knife was wrapped so tightly in his wallet that it couldn't give a warning if it was to try. So he took all the knives from the ...
— Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country • Joel Chandler Harris
... FLY-LEAF.—"Buzziness first, pleasure after," as the bluebottle said when, after circling three times about the breakfast-table, he alighted on ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 11, 1891 • Various


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