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Synonyms for fruit fly


Grammar : Noun

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Définition of fruit fly

  • As in insect : noun bug
Example sentences :
  • They are particularly on the watch for the Mediterranean fruit fly and for the mongoose.
  • Extract from : « Conservation Reader » by Harold W. Fairbanks
  • In the fruit fly, Drosophila ampelophila, we have found about 125 characters that are inherited in a perfectly definite way.
  • Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
  • A fourth case is shown in the fruit fly, where an ebony fly with long wings is mated to a grey fly with vestigial wings (fig. 24).
  • Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
  • The most extensive and conclusive experiments along this line are those by Morgan on the fruit fly Drosophila.
  • Extract from : « The Organism as a Whole » by Jacques Loeb
  • Again, a mutant stock in the fruit fly (Drosophila) has as its most marked characteristic very short wings.
  • Extract from : « Applied Eugenics » by Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
  • The earlier ripening fruit usually escapes damage from fruit fly, but the late fruit often suffers considerably.
  • Extract from : « Fruits of Queensland » by Albert Benson
  • Many kinds of pears do well, but, unfortunately, this fine fruit is very liable to be attacked by fruit fly.
  • Extract from : « Fruits of Queensland » by Albert Benson
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