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Tsetse Fly

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Noun

1. glossina, tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly

bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tsetse Fly

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noun
any of various bloodsucking African dipterous flies of the genus Glossina, which transmit the pathogens of various diseases: family Muscidae

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Tsetse Fly

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any of a family (Glossinidae) of small dipterous flies of central and S Africa, including species that carry the trypanosomes that cause nagana and sleeping sickness

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tsetse Fly

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n.
Any of various two-winged bloodsucking flies of the genus Glossina of sub-Saharan Africa that transmit the trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.

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