fruit fly

• fruitfly (deprecated in zoologic systematic nomenclature)

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fruit fly (plural fruit flies)

2. Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
4. Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.

   Hyponym: drosophila

5. (slang) A woman who enjoys the company of homosexual men.

   Synonym: fag hag

   • 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:

     Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.

• black cherry fruit fly (Rhagoletis fausta)
• cherry fruit fly (Rhagoletis cerasi)
• common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)
• European cherry fruit fly (Rhagoletis cerasi)
• flightless fruit fly
• lesser fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)
• mango fruit fly (Ceratitis cosyra)
• Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata)
• Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens)
• Natal fruit fly (Ceratitis rosa)
• olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae)
• oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis)
• papaya fruit fly (Toxotrypana curvicauda)
• Queensland fruit fly (Bactrocera tryoni)
• tephritid fruit fly (Tephritidae spp.)
• West Indian fruit fly (Anastrepha obliqua)

• fruit fly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tephritidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Drosophilidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies