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olive fruit flies

olive fruit flies is the plural of olive fruit fly.

Meaning of olive fruit fly

Noun

olive fruit fly (plural olive fruit flies)

  1. Synonym of olive fly (Bactrocera oleae).
    • Evidence from Drosophila, screwworm flies, olive fruit flies and fish all points to genetic adaptation to captivity involving rare alleles, deleterious in the wild and partially recessive there (Frankham 2008).2009, Richard Frankham, “Genetic Architecture of Reproductive Fitness and its Consequences”, in Julius van der Werf, Hans-Ulrich Graser, Richard Frankham, Cedric Gondro, editors, Adaptation and...
    Synonyms:
    olive fly

Questions about olive fruit flies

What is olive fruit flies the plural of?
Olive fruit flies is the plural of olive fruit fly.

Words near olive fruit flies in the dictionary

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

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