Usually means: Blood-sucking flies transmitting sleeping sickness.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossina: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. glossina: Collins English Dictionary
  3. glossina: Vocabulary.com
  4. Glossina, glossina: Wordnik
  5. glossina: Dictionary.com
  6. Glossina: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. glossina: Rhymezone
  8. glossina: FreeDictionary.org
  9. glossina: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. glossina: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. glossina: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glossina: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. glossina: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossina: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  A tsetse fly.

Similar:
tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze, tzetze fly, Lansbury, Banton, Bedingfield, diacetone, adsorbant, Shenton, more...

Opposite:
non-tsetse, atsetophobia

Phrases:
genus glossina, glossina morsitans, more...

Adjectives:
female, infected, fly, fossil, infective, viviparous, male

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Similar:
tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze, tzetze fly, Lansbury, Banton, Bedingfield, diacetone, adsorbant, Shenton, more...

Opposite:
non-tsetse, atsetophobia

Phrases:
genus glossina, glossina morsitans, more...

Adjectives:
female, infected, fly, fossil, infective, viviparous, male



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