glossina

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

glossina
    n 1: bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
         [syn: {tsetse fly}, {tsetse}, {tzetze fly}, {tzetze},
         {glossina}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

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