单词 | fruit fly |
释义 | fruit fly (once / 34259 pages) n WORD FAMILY fruit fly: fruit flies USAGE EXAMPLESIt is involved in things as diverse as setting off breast cancer in mice and helping orchestrate the body plan of fruit flies. New York Times(Dec 04, 2016) Later experiments with other labs were successful in saving the neurons of fruit flies and rats. New York Times(Oct 28, 2016) “This was a monumental step in our study of fruit flies.” Science Magazine(Oct 28, 2016) n any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits Syn|Hypo|Hyper pomace fly Rhagoletis pomonella, apple maggot, railroad worm larvae bore into and feed on apples Ceratitis capitata, Mediterranean fruit fly, medflysmall black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit Drosophila melanogaster, drosophilasmall fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance vinegar flyflies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
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