About The Word Tsetse
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Tsetse
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What's The Definition Of Tsetse?
[n] blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
Synonyms | Synonyms for Tsetse: glossina | tsetse fly | tzetze | tzetze fly Related Terms | Find terms related to Tsetse: See Also | fly | genus Glossina Tsetse In Webster's Dictionary \Tset"se\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A venomous two-winged African fly ({Glossina morsitans})
whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and
cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts
in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of
the year. [Written also {tzetze}, and {tsetze}.]
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