tsetsen.
/ˈtsɛtsi/ A dipterous insect ( Glossina morsitans, of the family Tabanidæ), abundant in parts of tropical and southern Africa; its bite is often fatal to horses and other domestic animals. Also applied to other species of Glossina. More fully tsetse-fly.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > glossina morsitans (tsetse-fly)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > glossina morsitans (tsetse-fly)
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1849 E. E. Napier Excursions Southern Afr. II. 396 [Gordon Cumming's] horses were killed either by lions or horse sickness, and the fly called ‘tzetse’. All his oxen were killed by this insect.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xxviii. 243 Four [horses] that are bitten with ‘tsetse’, and must die in a week or two.
1865 R. G. Cumming Last Jrnl. (1873) i. 15 The people..say there are no tsetse flies.
1889 L. V. Sheldon S. Afr. 94 The Tse fly stings their horses.
1895 J. Brown Secwana Dict. Tsetse, a fly destructive to cattle.]
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. v. 102 [Sir David] Bruce's notable work on the tsetse fly as a medium in diffusing the trypansoma of ‘fly disease’.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Aug. 368 Sleeping sickness is conveyed, at least in Uganda, by that species of tsetse fly we know as Glossina palpalis.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
tsetse-bitten adj.
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1906 H. R. Haggard Benita x. 138 Meyer..had already decreed the death of the tsetse-bitten cattle.
tsetse-conveyed adj.
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1917 Nature 18 Oct. 127/2 The tsetse-conveyed sleeping sickness is being got well in hand.
tsetse-free adj.
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1948 T. A. M. Nash Tsetse Flies in Brit. W. Afr. i. 7/1 Inside this huge area there are only three districts which are tsetse-free.
1977 Times 22 Apr. 10/2 The ever-spreading erosion and desertification wreaked by over-stocking of domestic cattle in tsetse-free areas.
tsetse-infested adj.
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1948 T. A. M. Nash Tsetse Flies in Brit. W. Afr. i. 13/1 Should..the river flow from tsetse-infested country northwards, it would be wiser not to plant up the banks.
1977 Times 22 Apr. 10/4 Vast tsetse-infested tracts of Nigeria.
tsetse-poisoned adj.
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1906 H. R. Haggard Benita x. 138 The time was to come when she would swallow that hard, tsetse-poisoned flesh.
C2.
tsetse country n. = tsetse district n.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > specific
moose yard1800
tsetse district1851
tsetse country1853
fly-country1864
Notogaea1868
floral zone1870
Ornithogaea1874
Nearctic1877
fly-belt1894
fertile crescent1914
alterne1916
Wallacea1928
pollen zone1929
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > glossina morsitans (tsetse-fly) > area infested by
tsetse district1851
tsetse country1853
1853 D. Livingstone Jrnl. 23 May (1960) iv. 139 There is only one small strip of Tsetse country to hinder one going westward.
1877 J. T. Baines Gold Regions S.E. Afr. 89 Persons travelling must seek for the latest information..when approaching the borders of a Tsetse country.
tsetse district n. an area infested by the tsetse fly.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > specific
moose yard1800
tsetse district1851
tsetse country1853
fly-country1864
Notogaea1868
floral zone1870
Ornithogaea1874
Nearctic1877
fly-belt1894
fertile crescent1914
alterne1916
Wallacea1928
pollen zone1929
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > glossina morsitans (tsetse-fly) > area infested by
tsetse district1851
tsetse country1853
1851 D. Livingstone Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1960) ii. 64 Several Englishmen have lost all their cattle horses & dogs by being led into a Tsetse district.
tsetse-fly disease n. = nagana n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > parasitic
wormc1000
botc1465
canker1753
heartworm1877
strongylosis1883
surra1883
psorospermosis1894
nagana1895
tsetse-fly disease1895
babesiasis1907
babesiosis1907
strike1932
1895 D. Bruce (title) Preliminary report on the tsetse fly-disease, or nagana, in Zululand.
1932 C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek ii. 28 They..were compelled to desist..on account of tsetse-fly disease among their cattle.
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