greenbottle

noun

greenbottle

noun

Etymology From green + bottle. From resemblance to shiny colored-glass bottles.

1

Any of various blowflies of the genus Lucilia that are a brilliant metallic green in colour.

Synonyms
green-bottle fly, green bottle fly
Derived terms
greenbottle fly
Hypernyms
blowfly, bottlefly
Coordinate terms
bluebottle

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