The Mediterranean fruit fly, commonly called the medfly, is one of the world's most destructive agricultural pests.
A young wasp grows inside the medfly, eventually killing it.
After apparently being eradicated by 1930, the medfly was spotted again in 1956 in Miami.
It was a medfly, a threat to a billion-dollar fruit industry.
The medfly and the melon fly both arrived in the late 1800s; the oriental fruit fly came in 1945; and the Malaysian fruit fly is the newcomer, first being found in Hawaii in 1983.
Definition of medfly in US English:
medfly
nounˈmedflī
North American
another term for Mediterranean fruit fly
Example sentencesExamples
The Mediterranean fruit fly, commonly called the medfly, is one of the world's most destructive agricultural pests.
A young wasp grows inside the medfly, eventually killing it.
It was a medfly, a threat to a billion-dollar fruit industry.
After apparently being eradicated by 1930, the medfly was spotted again in 1956 in Miami.
The medfly and the melon fly both arrived in the late 1800s; the oriental fruit fly came in 1945; and the Malaysian fruit fly is the newcomer, first being found in Hawaii in 1983.