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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various two-winged bloodsucking flies of the genus Glossina of sub-Saharan Africa that transmit the trypanosomes that cause sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
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- noun bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Afrikaans, from Sotho (Tswana) tsêtsê.]
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