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POMACE FLY

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Meaning:

Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits

Synonyms:

fruit fly; pomace fly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pomace fly" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pomace fly"):

apple maggot; railroad worm; Rhagoletis pomonella (larvae bore into and feed on apples)

Ceratitis capitata; medfly; Mediterranean fruit fly (small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit)

drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster (small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance)

vinegar fly (flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves)

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