GENUS DROSOPHILA

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• GENUS DROSOPHILA (noun)
  The noun GENUS DROSOPHILA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Drosophilidae

  Familiarity information: GENUS DROSOPHILA used as a noun is very rare.

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• GENUS DROSOPHILA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Drosophilidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Drosophila" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Drosophila"):

drosophila; Drosophila melanogaster (small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance)

vinegar fly (flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves)

Holonyms ("genus Drosophila" is a member of...):

Drosophilidae; family Drosophilidae (fruit flies)