LUCILIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lucilia mean? 

• LUCILIA (noun)
  The noun LUCILIA has 1 sense:

1. greenbottle flies

  Familiarity information: LUCILIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUCILIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greenbottle flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Lucilia; Lucilia

Hypernyms ("Lucilia" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Lucilia"):

greenbottle; greenbottle fly (blowfly with brilliant coppery green body)

Holonyms ("Lucilia" is a member of...):

Calliphoridae; family Calliphoridae (blowflies)