BLUEBOTTLE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

2.
n.

A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.


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