meyve sineği

Turkish

Etymology

meyve (“fruit”) +‎ sinek (“fly”), possibly a calque of English fruit fly.

Noun

meyve sineği (definite accusative meyve sineğini, plural meyve sinekleri)

  1. fruit fly (fly belonging to family Drosophilidae or Tephritidae)
    Akdeniz meyve sineği ― medfly (literally, “Mediterranean fruit fly”)
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