celery fly

noun

1

: a small brown-winged green-eyed European fly (Trypeta, or Acidia, heraclei) whose larvae are leaf miners in celery, parsnips, and uncultivated related plants

2

: an Australian agromyzid fly whose larvae mine celery stalks

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