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

Derived forms: tsetse flies

Type of: fly

Part of: genus Glossina

Encyclopedia: Tsetse fly