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DROSOPHILIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fruit flies

Synonyms:

Drosophilidae; family Drosophilidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Drosophilidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Drosophilidae"):

genus Drosophila (a genus of Drosophilidae)

Holonyms ("Drosophilidae" is a member of...):

Diptera; order Diptera (a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies)

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