greenbottle

English

a greenbottle fly, Lucilia caesar

Wikispecies

Etymology

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

Noun

greenbottle (plural greenbottles)

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

Synonyms

• green-bottle fly, green bottle fly

Hypernyms

• blowfly, bottlefly

Coordinate terms

• bluebottle

Derived terms

• greenbottle fly

 

Anagrams

• bottle green