释义 |
dro·soph·i·la \drōˈsäfələ\ noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek drosos + New Latin -phila 1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Drosophilidae) of small two-winged flies that have been used extensively in breeding experiments to study basic mechanisms of inheritance 2. -s : any fly of the genus Drosophila (as fruit fly) |