Usually means: Pest that targets onion plants.
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  1. onion fly: Merriam-Webster
  2. onion fly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. onion fly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. onion-fly, onion fly: Wordnik
  5. onion fly: Wiktionary
  6. Onion fly: Dictionary.com
  7. onion fly: FreeDictionary.org
  8. onion fly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Onion fly: HYPP Zoology

Definitions from Wiktionary (onion fly)

noun:  Delia antiqua, a cosmopolitan pest of crops, whose larvae or maggots feed on onions, garlic and other bulbous plants.

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