Definitions

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  • noun greenbottle flies

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Examples

  • Maggot: (such as Lucilia sericata) Use of maggots for wound healing has been linked to Maya Indians and Aboriginal tribes, as well as during the Renaissance.

    Eye on Britain 2009

  • If you look carefully, there's a green bottle fly clinging to the flower, Lucilia sericata.

    For God, Family, Country, and the Global Economy. doyle 2009

  • If you look carefully, there's a green bottle fly clinging to the flower, Lucilia sericata.

    Archive 2009-08-01 doyle 2009

  • · Blowflies As also noted earlier, neem oil and neem-seed extract deterred the female blowfly, Lucilia sericata, from laying its eggs on sheep.

    7 Medicinals 1992

  • While Lucretius was engaged in this work, he fell into a state of insanity, occasioned, as is supposed, by a philtre, or love-potion, given him by his wife Lucilia.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • While Lucretius was engaged in this work, he fell into a state of insanity, occasioned, as is supposed, by a philtre, or love-potion, given him by his wife Lucilia.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Over 300 larvæ of _Lucilia macellaria_ removed from face of negro woman.

    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

  • One inclines to accept M.. Clarence M. Weed's theory of special adaptation to the common green flesh-flies (_Lucilia carnicina_), which would naturally be attracted to a flower resembling in color and odor a raw beefsteak of uncertain age.

    Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

  • The following flies, among others, deposit their eggs on open sores or on wet, filthy parts of the skin, where their larvæ or grubs give rise to serious trouble: _Lucilia cæsar_ (bluebottle), _Cochliomyia macellaria_ (screwworm fly), _Musca vomitoria_ (meat fly), and

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • It was somewhat later before the others went and Lucilia, sitting a little apart from them, watched furtively the behavior toward each other of the newly engaged couples.

    Elsie at the World's Fair Martha Finley 1868

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