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Tsetse   /tsˈitsi/  /tˈitsi/   Listen
Tsetse

noun
(Written also tzetze, and tsetze)
1.
Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc..  Synonyms: glossina, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly.





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"Tsetse" Quotes from Famous Books



... called tsetse, is a perfect scourge in some parts of Africa. Its bite is fatal to the horse, ox, and dog, yet, strange to say, it is not so to man or to wild animals. It is not much larger than the common house-fly, and sucks the blood in the same manner as the ...
— The Gorilla Hunters • R.M. Ballantyne


Words linked to "Tsetse" :   genus Glossina, fly


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