ALL meanings of tsetse fly
tsetse fly
T t - noun tsetse fly disease-carrying flying insect 1
- noun tsetse fly any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, that act as a vector of sleeping sickness and other trypanosome infections of humans and domestic animals. 1
- variable noun tsetse fly A tsetse fly or a tsetse is an African fly that feeds on blood and can cause serious diseases in the people and animals that it bites. 0
- noun tsetse fly any of various bloodsucking African dipterous flies of the genus Glossina, which transmit the pathogens of various diseases: family Muscidae 0
- noun tsetse fly any of a family (Glossinidae) of small dipterous flies of central and S Africa, including species that carry the trypanosomes that cause nagana and sleeping sickness 0