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What is a bluebottle?

What is a bluebottle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise whilst flying.
  2. A marine jelly of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.
  3. A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus, with blue flowers resembling bottles.
  4. A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
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He said the seven-day collection timetable, introduced in the 1930s, was brought in because the life cycle of the bluebottle was ten days.
He noticed several bluebottle flies gathering in a panel at the side of the bath.
It sits, not quite dead, but buzzing like a bluebottle under a pint glass, its battery acid eating away the carpet.
Freedom is not sitting on the top of a tree, freedom is not the flight of a bluebottle, freedom is participating.
The house-fly and the bluebottle fly also belong to the order of the Diptera.
To the others in the car she could have been following a circling bluebottle.

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