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fruit fly
fruit fly (plural fruit flies)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. fruit-eating fly: a small insect that eats decaying fruit. Genus Drosophila.
2. plant-eating fly: a small insect that eats plant tissue. Order Trypetidae.
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