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MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR

• MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR (noun)
The noun MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR has 1 sense:

1. small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains

Familiarity information: MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR used as a noun is very rare.

• MAYETIOLA DESTRUCTOR (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hessian fly; Mayetiola destructor

Hypernyms ("Mayetiola destructor" is a kind of...):

gall gnat; gall midge; gallfly (fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants)

Holonyms ("Mayetiola destructor" is a member of...):

genus Mayetiola; Mayetiola (a genus of Cecidomyidae)

"Live and let die."
(English proverb)
"In death, I am born."
(Native American proverb, Hopi)
"A monkey that amuses me is better than a deer astray."
(Arabic proverb)
"Those who had some shame are dead."
(Egyptian proverb)

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Meaning of genus Mayetiola
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