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greenbottle
/ ˈɡːˌɒə /
noun
a common dipterous fly, Lucilia caesar, that has a dark greenish body with a metallic lustre and lays its eggs in carrion: family Calliphoridae
Example Sentences
Blue colors are common in tarantulas, such as this greenbottle blue tarantula.
Bluebottles, greenbottles, and all the flies of metallic luster were gathered at the Lucullan feast of corruption.
In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material.
As long as she does not feel ripe eggs coming to her oviduct, the greenbottle remains in the sun, hovering to and fro and sipping modest mouthfuls from the carcass.
I am speaking of an ash-gray fly, the greenbottle's superior in size, with brown streaks on her back and silver gleams on her abdomen.
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