fruit_fly (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *fruit fly*:
NOUN	animal	fruit fly, pomace fly	any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits

English > *fruit fly*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits.
Synonym	pomace fly
Narrower	Mediterranean fruit fly, medfly, Ceratitis capitata	small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit
	apple maggot, railroad worm, Rhagoletis pomonella	larvae bore into and feed on apples
	drosophila, Drosophila melanogaster	small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
	vinegar fly	flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves
Broader	dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron	insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing

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