drosophila melanogaster Drosophila • drosophilidae · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Characters · · drosophila melanogaster · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 23 · · Length 9 · · 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 · · Synonym 1 Characters · · space U+0020 a latin small letter a U+0061 d latin small letter d U+0064 e latin small letter e U+0065 g latin small letter g U+0067 h latin small letter h U+0068 i latin small letter i U+0069 l latin small letter l U+006C m latin small letter m U+006D n latin small letter n U+006E 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 t latin small letter t U+0074