Definition of tsetse Tsetse
/tsiˈtsi/ - [tseetsee] - tset•se
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What does tsetse mean?
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| tsetse - bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | ||
| tsetse fly, tzetze fly, tzetze, glossina | ||
| fly (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air | ||
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- tsetse (Noun)
Any fly of the genus , native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tsetse (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tsetse
tset′sē, n. a dipterous insect of South Africa (Glossina morsitans), not much larger than the common house-fly, brownish, with four yellow bars across the abdomen, strangely limited within sharply defined areas or 'fly-belts.' Its bite is fatal to the ox, horse, and dog
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🔤- tsetse, noun, singular of tsetses.
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