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Definition of yellow-bottle in English:

yellow-bottle

Pronunciation /?j?l?(?)?b?tl/

noun

(also yellowbottle)

  • More fully "yellow-bottle fly".(a) ?any of several yellowish blowflies native to Australia, especially Calliphora stygia and C. hilli (obsolete); (b) the tumbu fly, a yellowish blowfly native to Africa, Cordylobia anthropophaga (rare).

Origin

Late Middle English (in an earlier sense). From yellow + bottle.