blue fly

English

Noun

blue fly (plural blue flies)

  1. A blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XLII:
      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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.