tsetse
tsetse[ noun ]
bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
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Tsetse \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 certain seasons of
the year. [Written also {tzetze}, and {tsetze}.]
- He and the hunter met in the brush-studded Chipangali region of eastern Zambia, heavily infested by trypanosomiasis - a disease borne by tsetse files that can be fatal to man and beast.
- In 1985, the EC began a $170 million, 10-year program to eradicate the tsetse fly in southern Africa.
- Although cattle ranchers are trying to eradicate the fly the malarial tsetse remains unchampioned, even though its survival is vital to the African bush.