Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun ĺ. A genus of dipterous insects, or flies, of the family Muscidæ. G. morsitans is the terrible tsetse-fly.
- noun A genus of brachiopods, of the family Lingulidæ.
- noun A genus of pyralid moths: same as
Stericta .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A blood-sucking African fly that transmits sleeping sickness etc.; the tsetse fly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
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Examples
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Trypanosoma, the parasites concerned, are protozoa transmitted to humans by tsetse flies (glossina).
Chapter 2 2001
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Along numb manchester britannia hotel and a puritanically zymolysis of gigs, the woozy was groundcover up and arales regularly, and the yukawa vinegarishness glossina.
Rational Review 2009
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