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tzetze


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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  seasons  of 
  the  year.  [Written  also  {tzetze},  and  {tsetze}.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tzetze  \Tzet"ze\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  Same  as  {Tsetse}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tzetze 
  n  :  blood-sucking  African  fly;  transmits  sleeping  sickness  etc 
  [syn:  {tsetse  fly},  {tsetse},  {tzetze  fly},  {glossina}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  TZETZE  (or  :TSETSE:)  :FLY:,  n.  An  African  insect  (_Glossina  morsitans_) 
  whose  bite  is  commonly  regarded  as  nature's  most  efficacious  remedy 
  for  insomnia,  though  some  patients  prefer  that  of  the  American 
  novelist  (_Mendax  interminabilis_). 
 
 
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