apple fly

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

apple + fly

[edit] Noun

Singular
apple fly

Plural
apple flies

apple fly (plural apple flies)

  1. (zoology, informal) any of several dipterous insects particularly in the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae whose larva burrows into apples