Usually means: Stinging jellyfish, often found beachside.
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  1. bluebottles: Merriam-Webster
  2. bluebottles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bluebottles: Vocabulary.com
  4. bluebottles: Wordnik
  5. bluebottles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bluebottles: Wiktionary
  7. bluebottles: Dictionary.com
  8. bluebottles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bluebottles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bluebottles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. bluebottles: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bluebottle)

noun:  Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.
noun:  A marine jellyfish of the genus Physalia, which includes Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man-of-war, and Physalia utriculus, the Pacific man-of-war; a man-of-war.
noun:  A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus, with blue flowers resembling bottles.
noun:  A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
noun:  Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium, also called triangles, etc.
noun:  (UK, Australia, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A police officer.
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