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Zimb

Zimb \Zimb\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A large, venomous, two-winged fly, native of Abyssinia. It is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.

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zimb

n. An Ethiopian horsefly of the genus (taxlink Pangonia genus noshow=1), destructive to livestock.

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Balli, in placing the first astronomers at Selingenakoy, near the Bailkal paid no attention to this twofold circumstance: it equally argues against their being placed at Axoum on account of the rains, and the Zimb fly of which Mr.