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fruit fly

NOUN
  1. any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits

How To Use fruit fly In A Sentence

  • The medfly and the melon fly both arrived in the late 1800s; the oriental fruit fly came in 1945; and the Malaysian fruit fly is the newcomer, first being found in Hawaii in 1983.
  • Most astounding, the same gene bureaucracy is franchised throughout life, from fruit fly to whale.
  • Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus decided to find out how segmentation is controlled by genes in the newly fertilized egg of the Drosophila fruit fly. Hunting for the Genes Behind Pattern Formation...
  • The Mediterranean fruit fly, commonly called the medfly, is one of the world's most destructive agricultural pests.
  • As for Elliot, she's as scatty as a fruit fly, the constant butt of Cox's cutting jokes.
  • Tens of thousands of fruit flies have come and gone in laboratory experiments, and every last one of them has remained a fruit fly to the end, all efforts to see the miracle of speciation unavailing.
  • Farm and agro-processing workers: Climate change will make water scarce and more costly, spread pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly and the bollworm, increase plant-and-animal killing heat spells, reduce winter chilly spells many plants need, and raise the price of fuel and fertilizer. Brendan Smith: Coming Now to a Job Near You! Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers
  • Why did the common name fruit fly supersede vinegar or pomace fly?
  • Choanoflagellates show no hint of multicellularity, but they have 23 genes for cadherin proteins, about the same as the fruit fly or the mouse. An Animal Toolkit in a Single-Celled Organism
  • In one scene he almost runs a greengrocer over and sends boxes of fruit flying through the air. The Sun
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