DROSOPHILA as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
   Synonym(s)
   • Drosophila melanogaster (what does Drosophila melanogaster mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) drosophila is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • fruit fly (what does fruit fly mean?)
   • pomace fly (what does pomace fly mean?)