drosophila melanogaster

English Thesaurus

1. small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fruit fly, pomace fly,
definition	:	any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus drosophila,
definition	:	a genus of Drosophilidae (noun.animal)