greenbottle fly

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   blowfly with brilliant coppery green body

   Synonymsgreenbottle

   Broaderblowfly

   Part ofLucilia

Questions about greenbottle fly

What does greenbottle fly mean?

greenbottle fly means "blowfly with brilliant coppery green body".

What is another word for greenbottle fly?

Close synonyms include greenbottle. 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 greenbottle fly a common word?

greenbottle fly 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.