Usually means: Blood-sucking fly spreading sleeping sickness.
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  1. tsetse: Merriam-Webster
  2. tsetse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tsetse: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tsetse, tsetse: Wordnik
  5. tsetse: Wiktionary
  6. tsetse: Dictionary.com
  7. Tsetse (nuclear primary), Tsetse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Tsetse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. tsetse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. tsetse: Rhymezone
  11. Tsetse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tsetse: FreeDictionary.org
  13. tsetse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. tsetse: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tsetse: Encyclopedia

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  1. tsetse: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. tsetse: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tsetse)

▸ noun:  Any fly of the genus Glossina, native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes.

Similar:
tsetse fly, tzetze, glossina, tzetze fly, tsetze, tzetse, fly belt, triatome, sandfly, blind-fly, more...

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African, American, Congo, Gambian, Somalian, Nigerian, East African, West African, more...

Phrases:
tsetse fly, tsetse flies, tsetse disease, tsetse fly disease, nagana tsetse fly, more...

Adjectives:
female, infected, riverine, more, few, male, common, dead, fatal, african, wild

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tsetse fly, tzetze, glossina, tzetze fly, tsetze, tzetse, fly belt, triatome, sandfly, blind-fly, more...

Types:
African, American, Congo, Gambian, Somalian, Nigerian, East African, West African, more...

Phrases:
tsetse fly, tsetse flies, tsetse disease, tsetse fly disease, nagana tsetse fly, more...

Adjectives:
female, infected, riverine, more, few, male, common, dead, fatal, african, wild



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