tsetse (fly)
31tsetse disease — noun or tsetse fly disease : nagana …
32Tsetse — Tset se, n. (Zo[ o]l.) 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… …
33fly|belt — «FLY BEHLT», noun. a region of Africa overrun with tsetse flies …
34fly — A two winged insect in the order Diptera. Important flies include Simulium (black f.), Calliphora (bluebottle f.), Piophila casei (cheese f.), Chrysops (deer f.), Siphona irritans (horn f.), Fannia scolaris (latrine f.), Oestrus ovis and… …
35Fly — Heb. zebub, (Eccl. 10:1; Isa. 7:18). This fly was so grievous a pest that the Phoenicians invoked against it the aid of their god Baal zebub (q.v.). The prophet Isaiah (7:18) alludes to some poisonous fly which was believed to be found on the… …
36tsetse — n. a large bloodsucking fly of tropical Africa belonging to the genus Glossina. Tsetse flies, which have slender forwardly projecting biting mouthparts, feed during the day on humans and other mammals. They transmit the blood parasites that cause …
37tsetse — n. African fly carrying trypanosome that causes sleeping sickness …
38tsetse — 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: Tswana …
39tzetze fly — noun bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. • Syn: ↑tsetse fly, ↑tsetse, ↑tzetze, ↑glossina • Hypernyms: ↑fly • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Glossina …
40tzet|ze fly — tzet|ze fly, or tzet|ze «TSEHT see», noun. = tsetse fly. (Cf. ↑tsetse fly) …
