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blue fly

blue fly noun: a blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria.

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

Forms of blue fly

pluralblue flies

Questions about blue fly

What does blue fly mean?
Blue fly means a blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria.
What part of speech is blue fly?
Blue fly is a noun.
What is the plural of blue fly?
The plural of blue fly is blue flies.

Words near blue fly in the dictionary

  1. blue flier
  2. blue fliers
  3. blue flies
  4. blue flu
  5. blue flus
  6. blue fly
  7. blue flyer
  8. blue flyers
  9. blue force
  10. blue forces
  11. blue fox

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