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Definition: Tsetse |
TsetseNoun1. Blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tsetse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Synonyms: TsetseSynonyms: glossina (n), tsetse fly (n), tzetze (n), tzetze fly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tsetse |
| English words defined with "tsetse": family Glossinidae ♦ genus Glossina, Glossinidae ♦ Zebub, Zimb. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tsetse": nagana ♦ Trypanosoma brucei brucei, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, Trypanosoma congolense, Trypanosoma vivax, trypanosomiasis, Trypanosomiasis, African, trypanosomosis. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A bite by the tsetse fly is often painful. (references) | |
Inspect vehicles for tsetse flies before entering. (references) | ||
T. brucei is transmitted by tsetse flies of the genus Glossina. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tsetse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tsetse" is used about 19 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 (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tsetse": Tsetse Flies ♦ tsetse fly. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tsetse": tsetse-free, tsetse-infested. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
tsetse | 9 |
fly picture tsetse | 3 |
syndrome tsetse | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tsetse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mizë cece. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мухата цеце. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tsetseflu (tsetse fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tsetsevlieg (tsetse fly), tsetse (tsetse fly), tseetseevlieg (glossina, tsetse fly), tseetsee (glossina, tsetse fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tsé-tsé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tsetsefliege (tsetse fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τσέ τσέ, δηλητηριώδησ μύγα τησ αφρικήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cecelégy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mosca tse-tse (tsetse fly). (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, tsetse fly, tuna, Tutankamen, two-handed sword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ツェツェばえ (tsetse fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | setsee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etsetsay tsé-tsé. (various references) муха цеце. (various references) ce-ce muva. (various references) tsetsé (tsetse fly), mosca tsétsé (tsetse fly). (various references) tsetsefluga (tsetse fly). (various references) çeçe sineği (tsetse fly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Glossina morsitans. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tsetse": tsetses. (additional references) | |
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"Tsetse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ntietsa, stetes, teetes, tetse, Tsatsiki, Tsetsen, tsitses, Tsitsi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tsetse" (pronounced tsē"tsē or tē"tsē) |
| 3 | -t s ē | antsy, artsy, bitsy, chintzy, cutesy, ditsy, glitzy, nazi, palazzi, Patsy, ritzy. |
| 3 | -t s ē | antsy, artsy, bitsy, chintzy, cutesy, ditsy, glitzy, nazi, palazzi, Patsy, ritzy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sestet, testes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: setts, stets, tests. | |
-2 letters: eses, sees, sets, sett, stet, tees, test, tets. | |
-3 letters: ess, see, set, tee, tet. | |
-4 letters: es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: detests, estates, retests, septets, sestets, settees, setters, settles, sextets, streets, suttees, tensest, tersest, testees, testers, tsetses. | |
+2 letters: casettes, cassette, esthetes, estreats, fossette, gestates, musettes, osteites, pestiest, pretests, restates, retastes, rosettes, sedatest, settlers, shtetels, steepest, sterlets, sternest, sveltest, sweetest, teleosts, tempests, tentless, testates, testiest, textless, trestles, trustees, typesets, zestiest. | |
+3 letters: aesthetes, anisettes, attesters, austerest, bassetted, besetters, bystreets, cassettes, chestiest, cutesiest, detesters, diskettes, earthsets, esthetics, estimates, estivates, existents, feistiest, fossettes, frisettes, grisettes, hesitates, honestest, insetters, intensest, interests, metestrus, modestest, noisettes, outsteers, ovotestes, pettiness, petuntses, poussette, pretastes, resetters, resettles, satieties, seatbelts, seatmates, secretest, sentients, septettes, sestertia, setenants, sextettes, silentest, sleetiest, smectites, spectates, stateless, stateside, statesmen, steadiest, steamiest, stearates, steatites, steeliest, stemmiest, sternites, stretches, sweatiest, tasteless, teamsters, teensiest, telecasts, telestics, temptress, tensities, teosintes, tesseract, tessiture, testacies, testicles, testifies, testiness, tetanises, tetanuses, treatises, tressiest, triteness, unsettles, upsetters, vegetists, vestments, yeastiest. | |
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