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Tsetse

Tsetse Meaning & Definition
Tsetse Definition And Meaning

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

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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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