olive fruit fly
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Evidence from Drosophila, screwworm flies, olive fruit flies and fish all points to genetic adaptation to captivity involving rare alleles, deleterious in the wild and partially recessive there (Frankham 2008)."
- "According to the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources department, the olive fruit fly (bactrocera oleae) poses not only a severe economic threat for the state’s cutting edge olive oil industry, but any one, individual fruit bearing ornamental olive tree, untreated on a private property, is at risk of exacerbating the problem."
- "“That’s a good question whether it can make that big jump from the Rocky Mountains into California, Hester said. “But you know anything is possible.” As proven with both the olive fruit fly and the emerald ash borer, invasive species often take big leaps."