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Definition of Tsetses
1. tsetse [n] - See also: tsetse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tsetses
Literary usage of Tsetses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"Why did tsetses appear 20 miles south of the ferry and not north? My explanation
was that the dense thicket vegetation was unsuitable for Glossina morsitans ..."
2. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"Most other species of tsetses resemble one of these two species in choice of ...
tsetses show marked preference for certain colors, being especially ..."
3. The Technical World Magazine (1912)
"Upon the blood filled flesh lining of their open jaws were sucking swarms of
tsetses. This fact is believed to have been settled: no fly causes death unless ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... tsetses, etc., were not incorrect, as has now been recognized, but insufficient.
The basis for decipherment was furnished by the French expedition to ..."
5. Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young (1917)
"We could not be sure that some of them had not the seeds of the malady with them,
in which case many of the tsetses in the fly belts might easily become ..."
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