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单词 medfly
释义 medfly, n. Agric. (chiefly U.S.).|ˈmɛdflaɪ|
Also Medfly.
[f. Med n.2 + fly n.1]
= Mediterranean fruit-fly s.v. *mediterranean n. 1 b.
1956Time 18 June 71/1 Southern Florida was in something like a state of emergency last week... Cause of the uproar: the Mediterranean fruit fly... The ‘Medfly’ is no laughing matter. Its last visit in 1929 cost millions.1969Bull. Atomic Sci. XXV. 34/2 The millions of dollars in damage caused by the Mediterranean fruit fly or medfly.1981Business Week 19 Jan. 34/1 After months of haphazard attempts to thwart the pest, commonly called the medfly, California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. declared a state of emergency on Christmas Eve.1990Time 8 Jan. 51/3 An ecoterrorist organization..which claimed to be breeding and releasing its own medflies.
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