fruit fly
fruit fly • n. a small fly (families Drosophilidae and Tephritidae) that feeds on fruit in both its adult and larval stages.
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The fruit is the mature ovary and its associated parts. This unique covering of the seeds of flowering plants gives this group of plants their…
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