CERATITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ceratitis mean? 

• CERATITIS (noun)
  The noun CERATITIS has 1 sense:

1. Mediterranean fruit flies

  Familiarity information: CERATITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERATITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mediterranean fruit flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ceratitis; genus Ceratitis

Hypernyms ("Ceratitis" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Ceratitis"):

Ceratitis capitata; medfly; Mediterranean fruit fly (small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit)

Holonyms ("Ceratitis" is a member of...):

family Trephritidae; family Trypetidae; Trephritidae; Trypetidae (fruit flies; some leaf miners)