"greenbottle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: greenbottles [plural]
Etymology: green + bottle From resemblance to shiny colored-glass bottles. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|green|bottle}} green + bottle Head templates: {{en-noun}} greenbottle (plural greenbottles)
  1. Any of various blowflies of the genus Lucilia that are a brilliant metallic green in colour. Wikipedia link: greenbottle Categories (lifeform): Oestroid flies Synonyms: green-bottle fly, green bottle fly Hypernyms: blowfly, bottlefly Derived forms: greenbottle fly Coordinate_terms: bluebottle

Inflected forms

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