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Definition of Ceratitis
1. Noun. Mediterranean fruit flies.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Trephritidae, Family Trypetidae, Trephritidae, Trypetidae
Member holonyms: Ceratitis Capitata, Medfly, Mediterranean Fruit Fly
Definition of Ceratitis
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of keratitis) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceratitis
Literary usage of Ceratitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"There is one variety of wild poppy known as " ceratitis."72 It is of a black
colour, a cubit in height, and has a thick root covered with bark, ..."
2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1904)
"Ceratitis capitata Wied. "Peach-fly." This species was first recorded from Bermuda
by Messrs. Riley and Howard as "A Peach Pest in Bermuda," Insect Life, ..."
3. Surgical Diseases of Infants and Children by Paul Louis Benoit Guersant, M. P. Guersant (1873)
"Ceratitis. Ceratitis, or inflammation of the cornea, is often met with in scrofulous
children. This disease, which was observed many years ago, ..."
4. Report on Parasitic and Injurious Insects by Walter Wilson. Froggartt (1909)
"(PI. VIII., figs, la, 2a, 3, 4a ; PI. V., fig. 18.) Ceratitis ... called attention
to it as an orange pest, under the very appropriate name of Ceratitis ..."
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