FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Drosophilidae mean? 

• FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE has 1 sense:

1. fruit flies

  Familiarity information: FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Drosophilidae; family Drosophilidae

Hypernyms ("family Drosophilidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family Drosophilidae"):

genus Drosophila (a genus of Drosophilidae)

Holonyms ("family Drosophilidae" is a member of...):

Diptera; order Diptera (a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies)