glossina

See also: Glossina

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Glossina.

Noun

glossina (plural glossinas)

  1. A tsetse fly; any fly of the genus Glossina.
    • 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.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Glossina.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: glos‧si‧na

Noun

glossina f (plural glossinas)

  1. glossina (tsetse fly; fly in the genus Glossina)
    Synonym: tsé-tsé

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