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Glossina

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tsetse fly; any fly of the genus Glossina.

    "The Sundi plantation employs at present nineteen labourers for catching flies, and in December they caught seventy-five glossinas."

  2. 2
    bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Glossina.

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