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tsetse

[ UK /tsˈɛtsi/ ]
[ US /ˈtitsi, ˈtsitsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.

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  • Mein baas! mein baas! der duyvel um da -- dar skellum is da ` tsetse! ' The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
  • Mein baas! mein baas! der duyvel um da -- dar skellum is da 'tsetse!' Popular Adventure Tales
  • Spread by bites from the tsetse fly, it can lie unnoticed in the blood for months, even years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tsetse flies that infect cattle with nagana (animal trypanosomosis) have been ‘all but eradicated from Zimbabwe's farming areas’ he says.
  • As Dr.P. J. du Toit, of the South African Veterinary Services, said in London, last month (September), when showing a colour-sound film of the spraying of tsetse-infested lands with DDT from the air: "The tsetse is the biggest problem in Africa". Africa South of the Sahara
  • Trypanosoma, the parasites concerned, are protozoa transmitted to humans by tsetse flies (glossina). Chapter 2
  • It is caused by the trypanosoma parasite, which enters the bloodstream through the bite of the tsetse fly.
  • It is caused by a protozoan, Trypanosoma brucei, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of a tsetse fly.
  • The meat looks fat and nice, and is relished by the people, a little glariness seemed to be present on the foreleg, and I sometimes think that, notwithstanding the dissimilarity of the symptoms observed in the camels and buffaloes now, and those we saw in oxen and horses, the evil may be the tsetse, after all, but they have been badly used, without a doubt. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
  • Dumisani Ncamazama was given a golden opportunity to further re-habilitate himself outside prison, however he has misused that opportunity and must stay behind bars where he rightfully belongs for the rest of his life," Setsetse said. ANC Daily News Briefing
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