apple midge
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apple midge (plural apple midges)
- (obsolete, zoology) A small dipterous insect (Sciara mali), the larva of which bores in apples.
- Any midge whose larvae cause damage to apples.
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[edit] See also
Sciara on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Sciara
Sciara on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Sciara
[edit] References
- apple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- 2004 research PR
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
