Tzetze

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tsetse \Tset"se\, n. (Zool.)
     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}.]


     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tzetze \Tzet"ze\, n. (Zool.)
     Same as {Tsetse}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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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