What does blue-bottle mean?
Blue-bottle means Alternative form of bluebottle.
Blue-bottle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Blue-bottle is a noun meaning Alternative form of bluebottle.
Meaning
Alternative form of bluebottle.
Example Sentences
There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill.
I listened to little oral essays on jelly blubbers, men-o'-war, sea slugs, blue-bottles, giant crabs, and even prawns.
Lily shook her head violently and sneezed a large blue-bottle fly from where that insect had perched itself on the tip of her nose.
To-morrow there is a party of purple at the “blue” Miss Berry’s. Shall I go? um!—I don’t much affect your blue-bottles;—but one ought to be civil.
Word Forms
- blue-bottles
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How do you use blue-bottle in a sentence?
There was nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill.
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