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olive fly

olive fly noun: a fruit fly of species Bactrocera oleae.

Noun

olive fly (plural olive flies)

  1. A fruit fly of species Bactrocera oleae.
    • This included work on 3 species of Psyttalia and on Tetrastichus giffardii by S. Mohamed. Identifications were provided for biocontrol programs on olive fly, and we made several attempts to collect more olive fly parasitoids in Kenya.2022 September 6 (last accessed), United States Department of Agriculture, “Archived copy”, in AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS, archived from the...
    Synonyms:
    olive fruit fly

Synonyms of olive fly

Forms of olive fly

pluralolive flies

Origin of olive fly

From olive + fly.

Questions about olive fly

What does olive fly mean?
Olive fly means a fruit fly of species Bactrocera oleae.
What part of speech is olive fly?
Olive fly is a noun.
What is the plural of olive fly?
The plural of olive fly is olive flies.

Words near olive fly in the dictionary

  1. olive drab
  2. olive drabs
  3. olive flies
  4. olive flounder
  5. olive flounders
  6. olive fly
  7. olive fruit flies
  8. olive fruit fly
  9. olive green
  10. olive greens
  11. olive grove

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