tsetse
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈtɛtsi/
- South African
:
mosca tse-tse
- The visual system of the tsetse fly is particularly sensitive to large blocks of contrasting color.
- tsetse fly
- tsetse control
- tsetse eradication
Examples
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At least 150,000 square kilometers of Ethiopia's land mass are tsetse-infested, and some 10 million cattle face the threat of tsetse-transmitted disease.
Academic text (1998) -
Drive out the tsetse fly and the whole landscape changes.
Academic text (1998) -
Come on, little tsetse fly.
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Various approaches, many ecologically damaging, have been used in attempts to control tsetse.
Academic text (1998) -
Tsetse makes large areas of tropical Africa uninhabitable by cattle and hostile to humans.
Academic text (1999) -
Only one species of tsetse fly was found to inhabit the Zanzibar island of Unguja.
Academic text (1998) -
Although the Department of Conservation made efforts to get rid of the tsetse fly menace through massive spraying campaigns, the fly was never completely eliminated.
Academic text (2005) -
Along this stretch of road, we were bitten by Tsetse flies, especially around the ankles—an unpleasant experience.
Academic text (2003) -
Sebungwe was a large, remote, and tsetse fly-ridden district bordering the Zambezi in the northwest of Rhodesia.
Academic text (2005) -
In Africa, the tsetse fly is known for spreading diseases like sleeping sickness to both humans and animals.
Synonyms
1
8.7
A large African fly that bites people and animals and causes sleeping sickness
A blood-sucking African fly that spreads sleeping sickness
Compounds
- South African
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8.7
A large African fly that bites people and animals and causes sleeping sickness
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tsetse comes from a southern African language where tsetse simply meant 'fly'. That's why English uses this local name for the dangerous biting fly that spreads sleeping sickness.