mediterranean fruit fly

Questions about mediterranean fruit fly

What is another word for mediterranean fruit fly?

It depends which mediterranean fruit fly you mean. In the sense “small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit”, the synonyms are medfly, Ceratitis capitata. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of mediterranean fruit fly?

WordNet records no antonym for mediterranean fruit fly. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for mediterranean fruit fly come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of mediterranean fruit fly

• Full entry for mediterranean fruit flyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for mediterranean fruit flyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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