名詞 drosophila:

1. small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
   同義詞：Drosophila melanogaster

dro.soph.i.la

n.（名詞）
Any of various small fruit flies of the genusDrosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used extensively in genetic research.
果蠅：一種果蠅屬 中小的果蠅，尤指被廣泛用于遺傳學(xué)研究的 果蠅

來源：
New Latin Drosophila [genus name]
現(xiàn)代拉丁語 Drosophila [屬名]
Greek drosos [dew]
希臘語 drosos [露]
New Latin -phila [pl. of] -philus [-phile] * see -phile
現(xiàn)代拉丁語 -phila [] -philus的復(fù)數(shù) [愛好…的] *參見 -phile