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bluebottle

[ US /ˈbɫuˌbɔtəɫ/ ]
[ UK /blˈuːbɒtə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight
  2. an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers

How To Use bluebottle In A Sentence

  • The book is full of scientific observations of creatures such as the sea speckle, the red poison needle, the oleander, the bluebottle or coral. From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review
  • I even open windows for bluebottles and talk them out.
  • I list it along with bluebottles, broken glass, backwash and muggers - the last-mentioned not actually in the surf but lurking in the nearby sanddunes, waiting for an opportune moment to interface with you and your valuables.
  • My kitchen window is at the back of the house and if I leave it open the house is filled with brown flies - they are not the normal bluebottles but flies which feed on sewage.
  • --- What is the tane but a waefu 'bunch o' cauldrife professors and ministers, that sate bien and warm when the persecuted remnant were warstling wi 'hunger, and cauld, and fear of death, and danger of fire and sword upon wet brae-sides, peat-haggs, and flow-mosses, and that now creep out of their holes, like bluebottle flees in a blink of sunshine, to take the pu'pits and places of better folk The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • On her right wrist she wore a light bracelet of a similar design, but this had a large blue stone imbedded in it: a single bluebottle trapped in a silver filigree web.
  • In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
  • In the background, cameras whirred like demented bluebottles, adding their drone to the low buzz of conversation.
  • Whether we're aware of it or not, our homes are veritable wildlife parks, from the obvious predators such as rats and mice to the more discreet dust mite or the mendicant bluebottle.
  • To find out how the common bluebottle manages to process visual images more than four times faster than humans, researchers have built the bug a flight simulator.
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