blue fly

noun

blue fly

noun

1

A blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria.

Out of the upper part of the trunck grew the two wings […]: these in a blue Fly, were much longer then the body, but in other kind of Flies they are of very differing proportions to the body.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLII:

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