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blue flies

blue flies is the plural of blue fly.

Meaning of blue fly

Noun

blue fly (plural blue flies)

  1. A blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria.
    • Out of the upper part of the trunck grew the two wings […]: these in a blue Fly, were much longer then the body, but in other kind of Flies they are of very differing proportions to the body.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLII

Questions about blue flies

What is blue flies the plural of?
Blue flies is the plural of blue fly.

Words near blue flies in the dictionary

  1. blue flashes
  2. blue flax
  3. blue flaxes
  4. blue flier
  5. blue fliers
  6. blue flies
  7. blue flu
  8. blue flus
  9. blue fly
  10. blue flyer
  11. blue flyers

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