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greenbottle
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noun
- a common dipterous fly, Lucilia caesar, that has a dark greenish body with a metallic lustre and lays its eggs in carrion: family Calliphoridae
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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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