Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An African dipterous insect, of the family Stomoxyidæ and genus Glossina, G. morsitans, whose bite is often fatal to some animals, as horses, cattle, and dogs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
fly of thegenus Glossina, native toAfrica , that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitictrypanosomes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As Dr.P. J. du Toit, of the South African Veterinary Services, said in London, last month (September), when showing a colour-sound film of the spraying of tsetse-infested lands with DDT from the air: "The tsetse is the biggest problem in Africa".
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Senegal to South Africa known as the tsetse-fly belt.
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Another objection to traveling on either bank of the river was the prevalence of the tsetse, which is so abundant that the inhabitants can keep no domestic animals except goats.
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The only symptom pointing to the tsetse is the arterial-looking blood, but we never saw it ooze from the skin after the bite of the gad-fly as we do now.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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This destructive fly, which is called tsetse, is a perfect scourge in some parts of Africa.
The Gorilla Hunters 1859
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The only symptom pointing to the tsetse is the arterial-looking blood, but we never saw it ooze from the skin after the bite of the gad-fly as we do now.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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Vectors depending on terrestrial ecosystems, such as tsetse flies (Glossina ssp.), are often associated with specific types of vegetation.
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Durban, the last three hundred or so of which we had to make on foot, owing to the frequent presence of the dreadful "tsetse" fly, whose bite is fatal to all animals except donkeys and men.
King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Kemp explained that the trypanosome parasite is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
African Livestock May Benefit From A Scientific Breakthrough In Fighting Tsetse Fly Parasite 2011
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A team of scientists have made a revolutionary breakthrough on a parasite carried by the tsetse fly.
African Livestock May Benefit From A Scientific Breakthrough In Fighting Tsetse Fly Parasite 2011
adoarns commented on the word tsetse
famous stinging fly of Africa
December 10, 2006