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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
drosophila is a noun meaning "small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance". It carries one recorded sense.
small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for drosophila come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.