drosophila drosometer • Drosophila · · · 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 melanogaster. · · Noun Definition 1 Synonyms · · · drosophila melanogaster · · Synonym 1 Characters · · a latin small letter a U+0061 d latin small letter d U+0064 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