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Tsetse fly   /tsˈitsi flaɪ/   Listen
Tsetse fly

noun
1.
Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc..  Synonyms: glossina, tsetse, tzetze, tzetze fly.





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"Tsetse fly" Quotes from Famous Books



... a band of antelope was seen scudding away in the distance; here and there a zebra fled from before them, and once a pair of giraffes were discerned afar off over the plain. Though it was the beginning of winter, the tsetse fly bothered their stock a good deal, but the Boers cut branches from the trees and covered the animals with them when the sun was hottest and ...
— The Wedge of Gold • C. C. Goodwin


Words linked to "Tsetse fly" :   genus Glossina, tzetze, fly


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