Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fruit_fly

1 sense of fruit fly

Sense 1
fruit fly, pomace fly -- (any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits)
       => dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron -- (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)