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English Dictionary: tsetse by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tsetse
n
  1. bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
    Synonym(s): tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze, glossina
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tsetse \Tset"se\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A venomous two-winged African fly ({Glossina morsitans})
      whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and
      cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts
      in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of
      the year. [Written also {tzetze}, and {tsetze}.]
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