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tsetse fly
[ tset-see, tet-, tsee-tsee, tee- ]
noun
- any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, that act as a vector of sleeping sickness and other trypanosome infections of humans and domestic animals.
tsetse fly
/ ˈtsɛtsɪ /
noun
- any of various bloodsucking African dipterous flies of the genus Glossina , which transmit the pathogens of various diseases: family Muscidae
tsetse fly
/ tsĕt′sē /
- Any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, two species of which ( G. palpalis and G. morsitans ) often carry and transmit trypanosomes, the protozoans that cause sleeping sickness.
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Example Sentences
In many little bottles were specimens of the deadly tsetse fly that causes all the infection.
There are certain wide belts of land in Africa called the "tsetse fly belts," where horses, mules and cattle can not live.
But now the Boer can go north no more; two things stop him: the tsetse fly and the fever.
Fever and the Tsetse fly had been too much for the expedition.
Two other difficulties likely to meet travelers in this part of the country are scarcity of water and the tsetse fly.
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