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Definition: Glossina |
GlossinaNoun1. Blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | An African genus of twowinged flies. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: GlossinaSynonyms: tsetse (n), tsetse fly (n), tzetze (n), tzetze fly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glossina |
| Specialty definitions using "glossina": Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, Tsetse Flies. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Glossina" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (glossina). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | T. brucei is transmitted by tsetse flies of the genus Glossina. (references) | |
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| "Glossina" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glossina" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glossina": genus Glossina ♦ Glossina morsitans. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glossina | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glossina"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | tseetseevlieg (tsetse fly), tseetsee (tsetse fly). (various references) | |
French | glossine. (various references) | |
Italian | glossina. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ossinaglay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Glossina. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glossina": glossinas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lassoing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: losings, signals, slogans. | |
-2 letters: algins, aligns, aloins, assign, assoil, glossa, gnosis, gossan, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, logans, losing, salons, siglos, signal, slangs, slings, slogan, snails, solans, soling. | |
-3 letters: agios, agons, algin, align, aloin, along, anils, gains, gaols, glans, glass, glias, gloss, goals, gonia, lasso, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, lings, linos, lions, loans, logan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: assoiling, gasolines, glissando, glossinas, isogonals. | |
+2 letters: analogists, glissandos, granulosis, nostalgias, nostalgics, nostalgist, plainsongs, sloganizes, solarising. | |
+3 letters: langostinos, logicalness, nostalgists, outclassing, rosemalings, socialising. | |
+4 letters: anthologists, cladogenesis, digressional, gangliosides, genealogists, glassblowing, glucokinases, glucosamines, hooliganisms, langoustines, legislations, logisticians, plasminogens, regionalisms, regionalists, sailboatings, scaffoldings, stagflations. | |
+5 letters: angelologists, angioplasties, astonishingly, boardsailings, congressional, gastrulations, generalissimo, glassblowings, hospitalising, illogicalness, logicalnesses, melanogenesis, mineralogists, nematologists, oceanologists, palynologists, personalising, progressional, sailboardings, slaveholdings, smallholdings, somersaulting, urbanologists. | |
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