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 sineği ― medfly (literally, “Mediterranean fruit fly”)