noun
large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
• Syn: ↑blowfly
• Hypernyms: ↑fly
• Hyponyms: ↑bluebottle, ↑Calliphora vicina, ↑greenbottle, ↑greenbottle fly
• Member Holonyms: ↑Calliphora, ↑genus Calliphora
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any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Calliphoridae that deposit their eggs or larvae on carrion, excrement, etc., or in wounds of living animals.
Also, blowfly.
[1815-25]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.