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fruit fly

fruit fly noun: any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.

Noun

fruit fly (plural fruit flies)

  1. Any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
  2. Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.
  3. (slang) A woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
    • Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12
    Synonyms:
    fag hag
  4. (slang, uncommon) A heterosexual man who enjoys the company of gay men, or queer people in general.

fruit fly meaning in Tamil, Assamese, Persian and Vietnamese

fruit fly in Tamil

பழ ஈ, பழவீ, ஈ, காய்

fruit fly in Assamese

fruit fly, drosophila
কুনকুনি মাখি kunkuni makhi

fruit fly in Persian

Tephritidae
مگس میوه magas-e mive, مگس سرکه magas-e serke
Drosophilidae — see also Drosophila melanogaster
مگس سرکه magas-e serke

fruit fly in Vietnamese

Drosophilidae — see also Drosophila melanogaster
ruồi giấm

Synonyms of fruit fly

Forms of fruit fly

pluralfruit flies
alternative formfruitfly

Words formed from fruit fly

  • black cherry fruit fly
  • cherry fruit fly
  • common fruit fly
  • European cherry fruit fly
  • flightless fruit fly
  • lesser fruit fly
  • mango fruit fly
  • Mediterranean fruit fly
  • Mexican fruit fly
  • Natal fruit fly
  • olive fruit fly
  • oriental fruit fly
  • papaya fruit fly
  • Queensland fruit fly
  • tephritid fruit fly
  • West Indian fruit fly

Questions about fruit fly

What does fruit fly mean?
Fruit fly means any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
What is fruit fly in Tamil?
Fruit fly in Tamil is பழ ஈ, பழவீ, ஈ. See Fruit fly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fruit fly?
Fruit fly is a noun.
What is the plural of fruit fly?
The plural of fruit fly is fruit flies.

Words near fruit fly in the dictionary

  1. fruit drop
  2. fruit drops
  3. fruit fall
  4. fruit falls
  5. fruit flies
  6. fruit fly
  7. fruit hat
  8. fruit hats
  9. fruit ice
  10. fruit ices
  11. fruit jar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fruit fly (page history and authors); fruit fly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কুনকুনি মাখি (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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