Usually means: Fruit fly used in research.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word drosophila:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. drosophila: Merriam-Webster
  2. Drosophila, drosophila: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drosophila: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drosophila: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drosophila: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drosophila, drosophila: Wordnik
  7. drosophila: Wiktionary
  8. drosophila: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. drosophila: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. drosophila: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. drosophila: Dictionary.com
  12. Drosophila (subgenus), Drosophila: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. drosophila: Rhymezone
  14. drosophila: FreeDictionary.org
  15. drosophila: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. drosophila: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. drosophila: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. drosophila: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Drosophila: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Drosophila: Medical dictionary
  6. Drosophila: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See drosophilae as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drosophila)

▸ noun:  Any fruit fly of the genus Drosophila

Similar:
Drosophila melanogaster, drosophilan, fruit fly, vinegar fly, banana fly, garbage fly, nondrosophilid, fruitfly, drosophilist, dipterid, more...

Opposite:
non-drosophilid, non-fruit fly, non-Diptera

Types:
fruit fly, vinegar fly, pomace fly, wine fly, olive fly, more...

Phrases:
drosophila genome, genus drosophila, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila suzukii, Drosophila embryogenesis, more...

Adjectives:
female, male, fly, eye, normal, mutant, transgenic, subgenus, type, winged, wild

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Similar:
Drosophila melanogaster, drosophilan, fruit fly, vinegar fly, banana fly, garbage fly, nondrosophilid, fruitfly, drosophilist, dipterid, more...

Opposite:
non-drosophilid, non-fruit fly, non-Diptera

Types:
fruit fly, vinegar fly, pomace fly, wine fly, olive fly, more...

Phrases:
drosophila genome, genus drosophila, Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila suzukii, Drosophila embryogenesis, more...

Adjectives:
female, male, fly, eye, normal, mutant, transgenic, subgenus, type, winged, wild

Colors:
    red,     brown,     black,     yellow,     white, more...



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