Definition of medfly in English:
medfly
nounPlural medflies ˈmɛdflʌɪˈmedflī
North American another term for Mediterranean fruit fly
Example sentencesExamples
- The Mediterranean fruit fly, commonly called the medfly, is one of the world's most destructive agricultural pests.
- A young wasp grows inside the medfly, eventually killing it.
- After apparently being eradicated by 1930, the medfly was spotted again in 1956 in Miami.
- It was a medfly, a threat to a billion-dollar fruit industry.
- The medfly and the melon fly both arrived in the late 1800s; the oriental fruit fly came in 1945; and the Malaysian fruit fly is the newcomer, first being found in Hawaii in 1983.