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Mediterranean fruit fly
noun
Definition of MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY
: a small widely distributed yellowish-brown dipteran fly (Ceratitis capitata) with a banded abdomen whose larva lives and feeds in ripening fruit —called also medfly
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1899
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