"fruitfly" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: fruitflies [plural]
Etymology: From fruit + fly. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fruit|fly}} fruit + fly Head templates: {{en-noun}} fruitfly (plural fruitflies)
  1. (deprecated in zoologic systematic nomenclature) Alternative spelling of fruit fly. Tags: alt-of, alternative, proscribed Alternative form of: fruit fly
    Sense id: en-fruitfly-en-noun-nfn-Xss7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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