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glossina

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted agilnossStarts with GEnds with A0 clues
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Definitions

  1. bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.

Word origin

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Glossina.

Used in a sentence

  • The Sundi plantation employs at present nineteen labourers for catching flies, and in December they caught seventy-five glossinas.
  • Both trypanosomes and glossinas must have been present in Africa since very remote times.

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