fruit-fly
51queensland fruit fly — noun Usage: usually capitalized Q : a trypetid fly (Dacus tryoni) that is a serious pest of fruits in New So. Wales …
52west indian fruit fly — noun Usage: usually capitalized W&I : a small fly (Anastrepha mombinpraeoptans) of the family Trypetidae whose larvae develop in citrus and other fruits in tropical America …
53fly — fly1 flyable, adj. flyability, n. /fluy/, v., flew or, for 11, 19, flied, flown, flying, n., pl. flies. v.i. 1. to move through the air using wings …
54fruit — fruitlike, adj. /frooht/, n., pl. fruits, (esp. collectively) fruit, v. n. 1. any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals. 2. the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or… …
55Fly — For other uses, see fly (disambiguation) and flies (disambiguation). Fly Temporal range: Middle Triassic Recent 245–0 Ma …
56fruit — n. & v. n. 1 a the usu. sweet and fleshy edible product of a plant or tree, containing seed. b (in sing.) these in quantity (eats fruit). 2 the seed of a plant or tree with its covering, e.g. an acorn, pea pod, cherry, etc. 3 (usu. in pl.)… …
57fly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. soar, wing, aviate; float, wave; speed, bolt, dart; flee, decamp, disperse, scatter. See aviation, velocity, escape. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An insect] Syn. housefly, bluebottle, bug, winged insect,… …
58Fruit (disambiguation) — A fruit (from Latin fructus enjoyment, profit ) is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant.Fruit may also refer to: * Fruit (band), an indie rock band from Australia * Fruit (chess engine), a computer chess program * Fruit (slang) as well as… …
59fly n — 1) What has 18 legs and catches flies? A baseball team. 2) Waiter, Waiter, is this a fly in my soup? Quite possibly, sir. The chef used to be a tailor. bark v, fruit fly n, flue n, fly v …
60FLY — (Heb. זְבוּב), which occurs in an analogous form in other Semitic languages, refers mainly to the housefly (Musca domestica) A dead fly turns foul anything it falls into (Eccles. 10:1). Among the visitations against which public prayer was… …
