Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dipterous insect of Abyssinia, resembling and related to the tsetse of southern Africa, and very destructive to cattle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
Ethiopian horsefly of thegenus Pangonia, destructive tolivestock .
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