What does tsetse fly mean?

tsetse fly means "bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.".

What is another word for tsetse fly?

Close synonyms include tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze, glossina. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tsetse fly a common word?

tsetse fly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

tsetse fly — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
Synonymstsetse tzetze fly tzetze glossina
Broaderfly
Part ofgenus Glossina

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