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4 [zoology] words
leveret
bluebottle
tench
Newfoundland dog
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bluebottle

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1. a common fly species that both feeds on and lays eggs in decaying meat
2. slang for a policeman, first attested in Shakespeare's King Henry.

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In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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BLOOM: Bee or bluebottle too other day butting shadow on wall dazed self then me wandered dazed down shirt good job I...

James Joyce. Ulysses.
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as I looked up into the corners of the tester over my head, I thought what a number of blue-bottle flies from the butchers', and earwigs from the market,

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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