bluebottle

bluebottle
blue·bot·tle 'blü-.bät-əl n any of several blowflies (genus Calliphora) that have an iridescent blue body or abdomen and make a loud buzzing noise in flight

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  • Bluebottle OS — Bluebottle  операционная система, разрабатываемая в Programming Languages and Runtime Systems Research Group, основанная на ядре Active Object System (AOS) дальнейшего развития системы Oberon. AOS в последнее время известна как ОС A2. Она… …   Википедия

  • Bluebottle OS — Bluebottle, (formerly known as AOS), is the name of the next generation Native Oberon, the Oberon operating system for bare PC hardware. It was developed at the ETH Zürich. It is lean and fast and has support for multiprocessor machines. It is… …   Wikipedia

  • Bluebottle — can mean:* Portuguese Man o War ( Physalia physalis ), stinging marine siphonophores resembling jellyfish * Bluebottle (character), in The Goon Show * Blow fly, genus Calliphora and similar species * Blue bottle fly, a common species of the… …   Wikipedia

  • Bluebottle — ist ein Betriebssystem basierend auf dem Kernel Active Object System (Aos). In Entwicklung an der ETH Zürich stellt es eine kompakte Laufzeitumgebung für die Programmiersprache Active Oberon zur Verfügung, in der aktive Objekte direkt unterstützt …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Bluebottle — Blue bot tle, blue bottle lue bottle, n. 1. (Bot.) an annual Eurasian plant ({Centaurea cyanus}) which grows in grain fields; called also {bachelor s button}. It receives its name from its blue bottle shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • bluebottle — ► NOUN ▪ a common blowfly with a metallic blue body …   English terms dictionary

  • bluebottle — [blo͞o′bät′ l] n. 1. any of various plants with blue, bottle shaped flowers, as the cornflower, grape hyacinth, or closed gentian 2. any of a genus (Calliphora) of metallic blue blowflies …   English World dictionary

  • bluebottle — UK [ˈbluːˌbɒt(ə)l] / US [ˈbluˌbɑt(ə)l] noun [countable] Word forms bluebottle : singular bluebottle plural bluebottles a large fly with a shiny blue body …   English dictionary

  • bluebottle — /blooh bot l/, n. 1. cornflower (def. 1). 2. a composite plant, Centaurea cyanus, having narrow leaves and blue flower heads. 3. See bluebottle fly. 4. Chiefly Australian. Portuguese man of war. [1545 55; BLUE + BOTTLE1] * * * …   Universalium

  • bluebottle — [[t]blu͟ːbɒt(ə)l[/t]] bluebottles N COUNT A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark blue body …   English dictionary

  • Bluebottle (character) — Bluebottle is a comedy character from the Goon Show, a 1950s British comedy radio show. The character was created and performed by Peter Sellers.Bluebottle is an adenoidal squeaky voiced boy scout from East Finchley (the same neighborhood of… …   Wikipedia

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