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Definition: Musca vomitoria
Bluebottle
\Blue"bot`tle\, blue-bottle
\blue-bottle\, n.
1. (Bot.) an annual Eurasian plant (
Centaurea cyanus) which
grows in grain fields; -- called also
bachelor's button.
It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.
Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of
blue or purple or pink or white flowers
Syn: cornflower, bachelor's button.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly
(
Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
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