| 单词 | apple fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasapple fly apple fly n. any of various small flying insects found on apples or apple trees; (now) spec. the fly Rhagoletis pomonella (family Trypetidae), native to North America, the larva of which is the apple maggot. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Apple Fly..a small green fly found sometimes within an Apple. 1824 Times 27 Dec. 3/5 (advt.) A full definition of the apple fly, commonly termed the American blight, which causes the canker in apple-trees. 1870 A. S. Packard Guide to Study of Insects (ed. 2) 414 The Apple Fly, or Drosophila, has habits like the apple midge. 1980 Systematic Zool. 29 267/2 Reissig and Smith..reared F1 flies from reciprocal crosses between hawthorn and apple flies on artificial media. 2003 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 11490/2 Studies have discerned several cues that apple flies use to recognize apple trees. < as lemmas |
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