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