meyve sineği
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
meyve (“fruit”) + sinek (“fly”), possibly a calque of English fruit fly.
Noun edit
meyve sineği (definite accusative meyve sineğini, plural meyve sinekleri)
- fruit fly (fly belonging to family Drosophilidae or Tephritidae)
- Akdeniz meyve sineği ― medfly (literally, “Mediterranean fruit fly”)