blue ground
Britishnoun
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Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.
From BBC
The first lady, like Taylor, is also seated against a clear blue ground.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2015, one of Britain's largest beetles - the striking blue ground beetle - was discovered in Wales for the first time in woodland near Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.
From BBC
It is applied more deliberately in one of seven impressions of “Valley With a River and a Town With Four Towers,” where orange rocks sit on blue ground.
From New York Times
We might resent a little the alienating fanciness of, say, a gorgeous overhead shot of Michael Jordan soaring for a slam, his shadow cast on a brilliant blue ground.
From The New Yorker
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