meyve sineği
Turkish
editEtymology
editmeyve (“fruit”) + sinek (“fly”), possibly a calque of English fruit fly.
Noun
editmeyve 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”)