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tsetse

HYPHEN

tset=se

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tsetse has 1 sense

tsetse(n = noun.animal) glossina, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly - bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.; Array

is a kind of fly

is a member of genus glossina

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CIDE 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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

tsetse, n. any fly of the genus Glossina native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood with a needle-like proboscis and transmits trypanosomiasis.

Etymology

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