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apple fly

noun

Etymology

From apple + fly.

  1. derived from *plewk-✻
  2. inherited from *fleugǭ✻
  3. inherited from *fleugā✻
  4. inherited from flȳġe
  5. inherited from flye
  6. compounded as apple fly — “apple + fly”

Definitions

  1. Any of several dipterous insects particularly in the families Tephritidae and…

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

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for apple fly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA