blue fly

English

Noun

blue fly (plural blue flies)

1. A blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLII:

     Out of the upper part of the trunck grew the two wings […]: these in a blue Fly, were much longer then the body, but in other kind of Flies they are of very differing proportions to the body.