💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Fruit fly"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| pomace flynoun | any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits |
| fruitflynoun | (deprecated in zoologic systematic nomenclature) Alternative spelling of fruit fly. [Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.] |
| forest flynoun | A horsefly, any of numerous species of blood-sucking flies of the family Tabanidae. |
| apple flynoun | Any of several dipterous insects particularly in the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae whose larvae burrow into apples. |
| tephritidnoun | A member of the Tephritidae, a family of fruit flies. |
| trypetidnoun | Any fruit flyin the family Trypetidae, now considered to be the tephritid subfamily Trypetinae. |
| frit flynoun | Any fly in the family Chloropidae. |
| hop flynoun | A kind of aphid that is destructive to hop plantations. |
| phoridnoun | Any fly of the family Phoridae. |
| bee flynoun | Any of the flies in the family Bombyliidae, with adults that look like bumblebees and larvae that are parasitic on the eggs or larvae of other insects. |
| drain flynoun | Any species in the subfamily Psychodinae of the family Psychodidae. |
| wine flynoun | Any of the genus Piophila of small two-winged flies. |
| awl-flynoun | Any fly in the family Xylophagidae, which resemble ichneumon wasps. |
| leaf-miner flynoun | A fly in the family Agromyzidae, most larvae of which are leaf miners on various plants. |
| bat flynoun | Any of the family Nycteribiidae of flattened, spider-like parasitic flies without eyes or wings. |
| fungus mothnoun | Any of various moths in the family Tineidae. |
| blowflynoun | Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds. |
| tephritoidnoun | (zoology) Any fly of the superfamily Tephritoidea. |
| tephiritidnoun | Misspelling of tephritid. [A member of the Tephritidae, a family of fruit flies.] |
| vinegar flynoun | Any fly of the genus Drosophila, especially Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. |
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