Drosophila drosophila • drosophila melanogaster · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · Drosophila · · Text Latin · · Script 10 · · Length 4 · · Syllables Definitions · · · (noun) small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance. Synonyms: drosophila, Drosophila melanogaster. · · Noun Definition 1 Synonyms · · · drosophila melanogaster · · Synonym 1 Characters · · D latin capital letter d U+0044 a latin small letter a U+0061 h latin small letter h U+0068 i latin small letter i U+0069 l latin small letter l U+006C o latin small letter o U+006F p latin small letter p U+0070 r latin small letter r U+0072 s latin small letter s U+0073