glossina

[glo-sahy-nuh, -see-, glaw-]

noun

tsetse fly.

Origin of glossina

1885–90; < New Latin: genus name, so called from its long proboscis; see gloss-, -ina²

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Examples from the Web for glossina

Historical Examples of glossina

One of the worst is the tsetse (Glossina morsitans), immortalised by Livingstone.
Parasites
T. Spencer Cobbold
The Glossina morsitans abounds on the banks of the African river, the Zambesi, frequenting the bushes and reeds that border it.
The Insect World
Louis Figuier
A few remarks on the Tsetse, or 'Glossina morsitans', may here be appropriate.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
David Livingstone
This insect—the 'Glossina moritans' of the naturalists—deserves a special paragraph.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
David Livingstone
For the Glossina morsitans sleeps by night beneath leaves in the bush, and only wakes when disturbed.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
Robert Valentine Dolbey

glossina in Medicine

Glossina

[glô-sī′nə]

n.

A genus of bloodsucking dipterous flies comprising the tsetse flies of tropical and subtropical Africa; they serve as vectors of the pathogenic trypanosomes that cause various forms of African trypanosomiasis.