Usually means: Stinging jellyfish, common near Australia.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Bluebottle:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bluebottle: Merriam-Webster
  2. bluebottle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bluebottle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bluebottle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bluebottle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bluebottle, bluebottle: Wordnik
  7. bluebottle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bluebottle: Wiktionary
  9. bluebottle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bluebottle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bluebottle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bluebottle: Dictionary.com
  13. Bluebottle (character), Bluebottle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bluebottle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bluebottle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bluebottle: Rhymezone
  17. Bluebottle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bluebottle: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bluebottle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bluebottle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bluebottle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bluebottle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bluebottle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. bluebottle: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bluebottle: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bluebottle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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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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