FRUIT FLY meaning: Small fly feeding on fruit

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word fruit fly:

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fruit fly: Merriam-Webster
fruit fly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
fruit fly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
fruit fly: Collins English Dictionary
fruit fly: Vocabulary.com
fruit-fly, fruit fly: Wordnik
fruit fly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
fruit fly: Wiktionary
fruit fly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
fruit fly: Infoplease Dictionary
fruit fly: Dictionary.com
Fruit Fly (film), Fruit fly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
fruit fly: Rhymezone
fruit fly: FreeDictionary.org
fruit fly: Mnemonic Dictionary
fruit fly: TheFreeDictionary.com
fruit fly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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fruit fly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

fruit fly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Fruit fly: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
fruit fly: Medical dictionary
Fruit fly: Drug Medical Dictionary

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FRUIT FLY: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fruit fly)

▸ noun:  Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
▸ noun:  Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.
▸ noun:  (slang) A woman who enjoys the company of homosexual men.

Opposite:

non-fruit fly, Drosophila-negative, non-Drosophila

Types:

vinegar, drosophila, medfly, fruit vinegar fly, vinegar fly, more...

Phrases:

Mediterranean fruit fly, Olive fruit fly, more...

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