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glossina
(encz) | glossina, n: |
glossina
(gcide) | glossina \glossina\ n.
A blood-sucking African fly that transmits sleeping sickness
etc.; the tsetse fly.
Syn: tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze.
[WordNet 1.5] |
glossina
(wn) | glossina
n 1: bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
[syn: tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze,
glossina] |
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Glossina morsitans
(gcide) | Tsetse \Tset"se\, n. (Zool.)
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. [Written also tzetze, and tsetze.]
[1913 Webster] |
genus glossina
(wn) | genus Glossina
n 1: type genus of the Glossinidae: tsetse flies |
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