“cherry fruit”

The following 3 entries include the term cherry fruit.

black cherry fruit fly

noun

: a small black fruit fly (Rhagoletis fausta) having a larva that burrows in and feeds on the fruit of native and cultivated cherries in western North America compare apple maggot

cherry fruit fly

noun

: a small brown trypetid fly (Rhagoletis cingulata) whose larva lives in the fruit of the cherry

cherry fruit sawfly

noun

: an American sawfly (Hoplocampa cookei) whose larva feeds on the cherry and plum


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