| 单词 |
medfly |
| 释义 |
medfly, n. Agric. (chiefly U.S.).|ˈmɛdflaɪ| Also Medfly. [f. Med n.2 + fly n.1] = Mediterranean fruit-fly s.v. *mediterranean n. 1 b.
1956Time 18 June 71/1 Southern Florida was in something like a state of emergency last week... Cause of the uproar: the Mediterranean fruit fly... The ‘Medfly’ is no laughing matter. Its last visit in 1929 cost millions. 1969Bull. Atomic Sci. XXV. 34/2 The millions of dollars in damage caused by the Mediterranean fruit fly or medfly. 1981Business Week 19 Jan. 34/1 After months of haphazard attempts to thwart the pest, commonly called the medfly, California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. declared a state of emergency on Christmas Eve. 1990Time 8 Jan. 51/3 An ecoterrorist organization..which claimed to be breeding and releasing its own medflies. |
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