Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tsetse.
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Examples
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About one-third of the total land area of Africa - some 30 million square kilometres - is known to be infested with tsetse-fly.
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Senegal to South Africa known as the tsetse-fly belt.
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I suggested twin columns, crowned by outsize effigies of a mosquito and tsetse-fly; it was those two insects that had prevented alien settlement, saved the country from the racial problems that were bedevilling so many other parts of the Continent, and so let them get their independence first.
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Protozoan parasite, a trypanosome, which is transmitted from one host to another by the tsetse-fly.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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The tsetse-fly is found only in tropical Africa and is limited in its distribution there to certain very definite, narrow, brushy areas along the water's edge.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Shows the relation of the tsetse-fly to this disease.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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In a later chapter it will be shown how the tsetse-fly, which is somewhat like the stable-fly, is responsible for the spread of the disease known as the sleeping sickness.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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It is definitely known that a species of tsetse-fly, _Glossina palpalis_
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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From worms he went to Protozoa-Trypanosomes, sleeping sickness, host tsetse-fly -- showed life history comparatively, propagated in secondary host or encysting in primary host -- similarly malarial germs spread by Anopheles mosquitoes -- all very interesting.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890
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He knew well that in the low lands of Equatorial Africa the tsetse-fly and the bad water were particularly fatal to horses; but these difficulties were not to be anticipated on our route, which would soon take us to the high land where the animals would be safe.
Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884
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