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Blood-sucking African fly
Answer for the clue "Blood-sucking African fly ", 6 letters:
tzetze
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. [syn: tsetse fly , tsetse , tzetze fly , glossina ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of tsetse English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tsetse \Tset"se\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A venomous two-winged African fly ( Glossina morsitans ) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain ...
Usage examples of tzetze.
His treatise on the Egyptian hieroglyphs was mentioned by both Michael Psellos and John Tzetzes, but it has not been seen sincenot since the sack of Constantinople.
The entire argument on the question of the month is open to the objection that too much weight is given to such men as Tzetzes and all the tribe of minor scholiasts, whose opportunities for accurate knowledge were, in many respects, vastly inferior to those of scholars of our own day.
Phayllus of Croton is accredited with jumping the incredible distance of 55 feet, and we have the authority of Eustache and Tzetzes that this jump is genuine.