greenbottle

English

a greenbottle fly, Lucilia caesar

Etymology

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

Noun

greenbottle (plural greenbottles)

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

Synonyms

green-bottle fly, green bottle fly

Hypernyms

blowfly, bottlefly

Coordinate terms

bluebottle

Derived terms

greenbottle fly

Anagrams

bottle green

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