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Noun: Mediterranean fruit fly
  1. Small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit
    "The Mediterranean fruit fly infestation devastated California's orange crop";
    - medfly, Ceratitis capitata

Derived forms: Mediterranean fruit flies

Type of: fruit fly, pomace fly

Part of: Ceratitis, genus Ceratitis

Encyclopedia: Mediterranean fruit fly