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 sineğimedfly (literally, “Mediterranean fruit fly”)
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