Definition of medfly in English:
 medfly
nounPlural medflies ˈmɛdflʌɪˈmedflī
North American another term for Mediterranean fruit fly
 Example sentencesExamples
-  The Mediterranean fruit fly, commonly called the medfly, is one of the world's most destructive agricultural pests.
 -  A young wasp grows inside the medfly, eventually killing it.
 -  After apparently being eradicated by 1930, the medfly was spotted again in 1956 in Miami.
 -  It was a medfly, a threat to a billion-dollar fruit industry.
 -  The medfly and the melon fly both arrived in the late 1800s; the oriental fruit fly came in 1945; and the Malaysian fruit fly is the newcomer, first being found in Hawaii in 1983.