bluebottle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus.
2. isim Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.

   “The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".”

3. isim A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
4. isim Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium, also called triangles, etc.
5. isim A police officer.

   “I will have you as soundly swing’d for this, you bluebottle rogue!”

6. isim A bluestocking.

   “To-morrow there is a party of purple at the “blue” Miss Berry’s. Shall I go? um! — I don’t much affect your blue-bottles ; — but one ought to be civil.”

7. isim A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.