bluebottle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus.
  2. A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.
  3. Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.
    — The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".
  4. A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
  5. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium, also called triangles, etc.
  6. A police officer. Australia,Ireland,UK,derogatory,slang
    — I will have you as soundly swing’d for this, you bluebottle rogue!
  7. A bluestocking. derogatory,obsolete
    — To-morrow there is a party of purple at the “blue” Miss Berry’s. Shall I go? um! — I don’t much affect your blue-bottles ; — but one ought to be civil.

词形变化

bluebottles plural blue-bottle alternative bluebottles plural blue-bottle alternative

词汇关系

上位词
blowfly bottlefly
衍生词
blue-bottle fly
并列词
greenbottle green-bottle fly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English blewbothel, from blew (“blue”) + bothel (“flower in the Asteraceae family”). In sense 2, a shortening of bluebottle fly. The fly was so named because it resembles the bluebottle flower in colour. The other transferred senses likewise have reference to the colour of the respective referents.
词源 2
From blue + bottle, in reference to the creature's bottle-like bladder.
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