Tsetse

[Sarah]

A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whosebite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, butharmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it aboundsuninhabitable during certain seasons of the year. [Written alsotzetze, and tsetze.]

[Justin Bieber]

An African bloodsucking fly which bites humans and other mammals, transmitting sleeping sickness and nagana.

[Ernestdyday]

bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.

[sky]

Any fly of the genus Glossina, native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes.

[Angelast]

tset′sē, n. a dipterous insect of South Africa (Glossina morsitans), not much larger than the common house-fly, brownish, with four yellow bars across the abdomen, strangely limited within sharply defined areas or fly-belts. Its bite is fatal to the ox, horse, and dog.