blue-bottle

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blue-bottle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. (Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca  vomitoria
        ). Its body is steel blue.
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