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bottlefly

noun

Etymology

From bottle + fly.

  1. derived from *plewk-✻
  2. inherited from *fleugǭ✻
  3. inherited from *fleugā✻
  4. inherited from flȳġe
  5. inherited from flye
  6. compounded as bottlefly — “bottle + fly”

Definitions

  1. A blowfly.

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