'Tsetse' definitions:
Definition of 'tsetse'
From: WordNet
noun
Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. [syn: tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze, glossina]
Definition of 'Tsetse'
From: 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]