greenbottle

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a greenbottle fly, Lucilia caesar
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Etymology[edit]

green +‎ bottle From resemblance to shiny colored-glass bottles.

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greenbottle (plural greenbottles)

  1. Any of various blowflies of the genus Lucilia that are a brilliant metallic green in colour.

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