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Noun
/ˈblo͞oˌbätl/,
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bluebottles, plural;
  1. A common blowfly with a metallic-blue body, the female of which often comes into houses searching for a suitable food source on which to lay her eggs

  2. The wild cornflower

  1. cornflower: an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
  2. blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight
  3. Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise whilst flying; Various marine creatures of the order Physalia, such as Physalia physalis the Portuguese Man o' War
  4. A British term for policeman that may have derived from Cockney rhyming slang. 'Bottle' is an abbreviation of 'bottle and glass', which is rhyming slang for 'arse'. (See also Bottles).
  5. The common name for the Blue Corn-flower (Centaurea cyanus). See notes on herbs.
  6. A blue coloured potch, more commonly found with boulder opal.
  7. Physalia physalis is not a single animal but a colony of different polyps (kinds of highly modified individuals). Bluebottles feed using their long, stinging tentacles to ensnare small crustaceans and other members of the surface plankton. ...
  8. a bright, metallic-blue blowfly.