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greenbottle

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noun

  1. a common dipterous fly, Lucilia caesar, that has a dark greenish body with a metallic lustre and lays its eggs in carrion: family Calliphoridae
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Blue colors are common in tarantulas, such as this greenbottle blue tarantula.

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Bluebottles, greenbottles, and all the flies of metallic luster were gathered at the Lucullan feast of corruption.

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In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material.

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When cut into pieces the size of a hazel nut and handed over to the greenbottle's grubs, the coagulated albumen dissolves into a colorless liquid which the eye might mistake for water.

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Nothing tells us that the grub of the greenbottle does not adopt this method of growing.

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