calliphora vicina

1. 1.

   blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight

   Synonymsbluebottle

   Broaderblowfly

Questions about calliphora vicina

What does calliphora vicina mean?

calliphora vicina means "blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight".

What is another word for calliphora vicina?

Close synonyms include bluebottle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calliphora vicina a common word?

calliphora vicina is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.