any of several sub-Saharan flies including those that transmit diseases, such as sleeping sickness, a serious illness marked by fever, lethargy, tremors, and weight loss; East
Bloodsucking fly of the genus Glossina.
Any one of several flies that that live in Africa south of the Sahara and that carry sleeping sickness (Afrikaans [1865], from Tswana tsètsè, fly)
blood-sucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
Any of several flies ( genus Glossina) that occur in Africa south of the Sahara Desert and carry protozoans which cause "sleeping sickness."
tset sEE, tet-, tsEE tsEE] Flourished in wet lowlands; carried sleeping sickness that severely limited pastoralism in western and central Africa. (p. 229)
Tsetse (pronounced /ts/e-/ts/e, teet-SEE, or set-see) are large biting flies from Africa which live by feeding on the blood of vertebrate animals. Tsetse include all the species in the genus Glossina, which are generally placed in their own family Glossinidae.
