how to pronounce drosophila

/dɹoʊˈsɑfələ/

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drosophila is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of drosophila in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… it is of course drosophila so we have …”

meanings of drosophila

noun:

Any fruit fly of the genus Drosophila.

drosophila frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word drosophila occurs in english on average 1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics drosophila can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that drosophila can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) life, nature, and living environment;