glossina

See also: Glossina

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

glossina (plural glossinas)

  1. A tsetse fly.
    • 1915, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report, volume 45, page 59:
      The Sundi plantation employs at present nineteen labourers for catching flies, and in December they caught seventy-five glossinas.
    • 1970, J. D. Fage, R. A. Oliver, Papers in African Prehistory, page 76:
      Both trypanosomes and glossinas must have been present in Africa since very remote times.
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