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tsetse
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  tsetse - bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.glossina, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze flyfly - two-winged insects characterized by active flightgenus Glossina - type genus of the Glossinidae: tsetse flies |
TranslationsEncyclopediaSeetsetse flytsetse
tsetse [tset´se] an African fly of the genus Glossina, which transmits trypanosomiasis.tset·se (tset'sē, tsē'tsē), Common name for bloodsucking flies of Africa. See: Glossina. [S. African native name] Glos·si·na (glos-ī'nă) A genus of bloodsucking Diptera (tsetse flies) confined to Africa; they serve as vectors of the trypanosomes that cause African sleeping sickness. [G. glōssa, tongue]tsetse
Synonyms for tsetsenoun bloodsucking African flySynonyms- glossina
- tsetse fly
- tzetze
- tzetze fly
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