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onion fly

onion fly noun: delia antiqua, a cosmopolitan pest of crops, whose larvae or maggots feed on onions, garlic and other bulbous plants.

Noun

onion fly (plural onion flies)

  1. Delia antiqua, a cosmopolitan pest of crops, whose larvae or maggots feed on onions, garlic and other bulbous plants.
    Synonyms:
    onion maggot

Synonyms of onion fly

Forms of onion fly

pluralonion flies

Questions about onion fly

What does onion fly mean?
Onion fly means delia antiqua, a cosmopolitan pest of crops, whose larvae or maggots feed on onions, garlic and other bulbous plants.
What part of speech is onion fly?
Onion fly is a noun.
What is the plural of onion fly?
The plural of onion fly is onion flies.

Words near onion fly in the dictionary

  1. onion fish
  2. onion fishes
  3. onion flies
  4. onion flute
  5. onion flutes
  6. onion fly
  7. onion grass
  8. onion grasses
  9. onion Johnnies
  10. onion Johnny
  11. onion maggot

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