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n. - Blowfly with brilliant coppery lime body.

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Usage examples (13)
  • In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material.
  • December 04, 2005 3: 34 PM bibliobibuli said ... savante - yes i was looking forward to hearing who the nominees were greenbottle - nothing wrong with that!
  • Large greenbottle flies hum thickly in the hot shade of the canebreak where their bodies lie, and the blood from their torn wounds has leaked into the stream.
  • March 19, 2006 10: 08 PM bibliobibuli said ... lydia - getting rid of old stuff is very liberating and i think a sort of subconscious metaphor greenbottle - you too?
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