bluebottle
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l noun
1.
cornflower ( def 1 ).
2.
a composite plant, Centaurea cyanus, having narrow leaves and blue flower heads.
4.
Chiefly Australian. Portuguese man-of-war.
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Bluebottle
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | another name for the blowfly |
| 2. | any of various blue-flowered plants, esp the cornflower |
| 3. | (Brit) an informal word for a policeman |
| 4. | (Austral), (NZ) an informal name for Portuguese man-of-war |
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Example sentences
The eggs of a bluebottle fly, if placed in the sun, will hatch in two or three hours.
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