vinegar flies

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• Drosophila vinegar flies — Drosophila vinegar flies. См. дрозофилы. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

• Vinegar fly — Vin e*gar fly Any of several fruit flies, esp. {Drosophila ampelopophila}, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• vinegar fly — noun flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves • Hypernyms: ↑fruit fly, ↑pomace fly • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Drosophila * * * noun : any of various fruit flies (especially Drosophila mel …   Useful english dictionary

• vinegar — see honey catches more flies than vinegar from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar …   Proverbs new dictionary

• honey catches more flies than vinegar — Soft or ingratiating words achieve more than sharpness. cf. St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622) in L. de la Rivière Vie de..François de Sales (1624) 584: souvenez vous que l’on prends plus de mouches avec une cuillerée de miel qu’avec cent barils de …   Proverbs new dictionary

• you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar — This means that it is easier to persuade people if you use polite arguments and flattery than if you are confrontational …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… …   Universalium

• fruit fly — 1. any of numerous small dipterous insects of the family Tephritidae, the larvae of which feed on the fruit of various plants. 2. See vinegar fly. 3. drosophila. [1745 55] * * * Any dipteran species of two families: large fruit flies (Trypetidae) …   Universalium

• drosophila — /droh sof euh leuh, dreuh /, n., pl. drosophilas, drosophilae / lee /. a fly of the genus Drosophila, esp. D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development. [ < NL < Gk dróso(s) dew + NL phila < Gk phile, fem. of philos… …   Universalium

• Drosophila — This article is about the entire genus. For the most commonly used laboratory species, see Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila Drosophila repleta Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

• cell — cell1 cell like, adj. /sel/, n. 1. a small room, as in a convent or prison. 2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole. 3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the… …   Universalium