| 单词 | tsetsefly |
| 释义 | > as lemmastsetse-fly tsetse-fly n. ( Glossina morsitans) an African fly which carries disease (esp. sleeping sickness) and transmits it to humans and animals by biting.extracted from flyn.1tsetse-fly 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > glossina morsitans (tsetse-fly) tsetse1849 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > glossina morsitans (tsetse-fly) tsetse1849 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. < as lemmas |
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