fruit fly
nounDefinition of fruit fly
: any of various small dipteran flies (such as a drosophila) whose larvae feed on fruit or decaying vegetable matter
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The restaurant has been dealing with a fruit fly outbreak around the bar. — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, "Review: Asian trio on Las Olas — Etaru, Red Door and Sushi Shack," 29 Aug. 2019 Previous SlideNext Slide Loihi, the underlying chip Pohoiki Beach is integrated from, consists of 130,000 neuron analogs—hardware-wise, this is roughly equivalent to half of the neural capacity of a fruit fly. — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, "Brains scale better than CPUs. So Intel is building brains," 16 July 2019 Similar drugs have extended the lives of countless worms, fruit flies and mice by slowing down an ancient aging process. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Can a single pill keep you healthy to 100?," 10 July 2019 Cells That Understand Statistics For decades, scientists have been studying fruit fly larvae for clues about how development unfolds. — Wired, "The Mysterious Math of How Cells Determine Their Own Fate," 24 Mar. 2019 In 2009, Budnik and her colleagues generated the first animal model that showed how fruit flies use extracellular vesicles to ferry a protein called Wnt across the synapse. — Quanta Magazine, "Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses," 2 May 2018 This is according to Harvard researchers who in 2011 documented dragonflies’ efficiency at capturing fruit flies. — Anchorage Daily News, "The dragonfly, Alaska’s state insect, is a nimble flying machine," 20 July 2019 From ants that pillage your pantry to banana-loving fruit flies or fleas that piggyback on your pets, the battle against bugs is ongoing. — Natalie Schumann, Country Living, "How To Get Rid of Roaches Before They Become a Major Problem," 18 July 2019 Cells That Understand Statistics For decades, scientists have been studying fruit fly larvae for clues about how development unfolds. — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, "The Mysterious Math of How Cells Determine Their Own Fate," 24 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'fruit fly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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