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n. (fruit fly English)
Usage examples of "fruit flies".
Doctors of preventive medicine, men at the borders who look for fruit flies, for Japanese beetle, men who quarantine the sick trees and root them out and burn them, men of knowledge.
We take fruit flies and cross red eyes and white eyes to see what happens.
Either way, he was beaten to death, his body put in one of the white environment boxes and taken with a shipment of fruit flies to Los Angeles.
I avoided any man from my own former social circles, though some of these appeared, like fruit flies, as soon as they got wind of my solitary and possibly rotten state.
Exposing fruit flies to X-rays or certain chemicals produces mutations, many of them lethal, as a result of which the flies cannot survive at all.
The experiments seemed to draw them, like a bowl of peaches drawing a cloud of fruit flies from nowhere, or a walk in the woods drawing chickadees.
Over 60 percent of human genes, it turns out, are fundamentally the same as those found in fruit flies.