What's the difference between bluebottle and cornflower?
Bluebottle
Definition:
(n.) A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.
(n.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the past year, Johnson says, she has seen children "who've not been fed for days, who've been raped by their mothers or constantly bullied by their parents, and who are living in conditions where bluebottles are flying around their head.
(2) When he spoke, you heard bluebottles droning round dusty classrooms but you felt his suffering too.
(3) A study has shown that, when applied to Physalia ("bluebottle") jellyfish stings, cold packs are effective as topical analgesia in the relief of mild-to-moderate skin pain.
(4) The Rest of the World featured Sanath Jayasuriya, who crops up pretty much everywhere these days, like a notably persistent bluebottle.
Cornflower
Definition:
(n.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.
Example Sentences:
(1) As late as 2013, he attended party gatherings wearing a blue cornflower on his lapel – a plant popularised as a symbol of the pan-German movement by the Austrian politician Georg Ritter von Schönerer , whom Hannah Arendt described as Adolf Hitler’s “spiritual father”.
(2) One key detail that both Leigh and Thompson get right is the ever-present cornflower blue necktie Ruskin wore, knowing that it highlighted his blue eyes, along with a brown-velvet-collared greatcoat.
(3) If it wasn’t for the votes of 31,000 Austrians – out of a 4.64 million-strong electorate – the country’s figurehead would now be Norbert Hofer , a man who wears the blue cornflower, a symbol associated with the Nazis.
(4) Strache has stated that the cornflower represented “the bourgeois freedom movement of 1848”, a claim that historians dismiss as fictitious.
(5) As Ian prepares for the half-mile-long return journey, he points a fistful of oily cotton waste towards the purple thistle-like flowerheads of knapweed, the pink, white and blue pincushion-shaped flowers of scabious, and the vivid blue of cornflower.