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Definition: Tsetse Fly |
Tsetse FlyNoun1. Blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Tsetse FlySynonyms: glossina (n), tsetse (n), tzetze (n), tzetze fly (n). (additional references) |
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Crosswords: Tsetse Fly |
| English words defined with "tsetse fly": Zebub, Zimb. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tsetse fly": Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, Trypanosoma vivax, trypanosomiasis, Trypanosomiasis, African, trypanosomosis. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A bite by the tsetse fly is often painful. (references) | |
Through the bite of an infected tsetse fly, found only in Africa. (references) | ||
The tsetse fly can bite through thin fabrics, so clothing should be made of thick material. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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 |
tsetse fly | 22 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tsetse fly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tsetseflu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tsetsevlieg, tsetse, tseetseevlieg (glossina), tseetsee (glossina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mouche tsé-tsé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tsetsefliege. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mosca tse-tse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ツェツェ (short speech at a dinner, statement, table, table center, table charge, table cloth, table cover, table manners, table talk, table tennis, table top, table wine, tablespoon, take back, takeaway, take-off, takeout, take-over, take-over bid, take-over zone, tape, taper, taping, taste, thesis, thulium, tree, tuna, Tutankamen, two-handed sword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ツェツェばえ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etsetsay yflay цеце (tsetse). (various references) tsetsé, mosca tsétsé. (various references) tsetsefluga. (various references) çeçe sineği (tsetse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | 1)Glossina, Glossina morsitans. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Tsetse Fly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tetse fly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-s-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fettles, leftest, settles, stylets. | |
-3 letters: fettle, feyest, fleets, flytes, fyttes, sestet, settle, sleets, sleety, slyest, steels, steely, steles, styles, stylet, testes, tsetse. | |
-4 letters: feels, felts, fesse, fetes, flees, fleet, fleys, flyte, fytte, leets, lefts, lefty, lyses, seels, seely, selfs, setts, sleet, steel, stele, stets, styes, style, teels, teles, tests, testy, tyees, yeses, yetts. | |
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