vinegar fly

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   flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves

   Broaderfruit fly

   Part ofgenus Drosophila

Questions about vinegar fly

What does vinegar fly mean?

vinegar fly means "flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves".

Is vinegar fly a common word?

vinegar fly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.