English Explanatory Dictionary

apple fly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several dipterous insects particularly in the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae whose larvae burrow into apples.

Word forms

apple fly apple flies

Etymology

From apple + fly.

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