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Noun: glossina
  1. Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
    "Efforts to control glossina flies have been crucial in combating sleeping sickness";
    - tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze

Derived forms: glossinas

Type of: fly

Part of: genus Glossina

Encyclopedia: Glossina