Yellow-bottle

1. [cf. BLUEBOTTLE 1, BOTTLE sb.⁴] The marigold (obs.); also the corn-marigold (dial.).

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c. 1450. Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.), 112. Menelaca, gall. gourde, anglice yellebotel [v.r. yelebothel].

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1847. Halliwell, Yellow-bottle, corn marigold. Kent.

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2. nonce-use [after BLUEBOTTLE 3]. (See quot.)

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1898. Morris, Austral Eng., Korrumburra, aboriginal name for the common blow-fly, which in Australia is a yellow-bottle, not a blue-bottle.

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