Medical Dictionary

greenbottle fly

noun green·bot·tle fly \ˈgrēn-ˌbät-əl-\

Medical Definition of GREENBOTTLE FLY

:  any of several brilliant coppery green-bodied flies of the family Calliphoridae and especially one of the genus Lucilia (L. sericata)—called also greenbottle

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