Tsetse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TSETSE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Setswana) a small fly that transmits trypanosome parasites, also TZETSE, TZETZE
• an African bloodsucking fly which bites humans and other mammals, transmitting sleeping sickness and nagana.
• any of various bloodsucking African flies
• 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.
• bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an African fly

Words related to TSETSE

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Words that contain TSETSE

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How to use TSETSE in a sentence

• The tsetse does not disturb the buffaloes, but these others and the smaller flies do.
• There are no symptoms of tsetse in mules or donkeys, but one mule has had his shoulder sprained, and he cannot stoop to eat or drink.
• Were I not aware of the existence of the tsetse, I should say they died from sheer bad treatment and hard work.
• The oxen, too, have all died of the tsetse bites or other illnesses.
• The usual pack animals, horses and oxen, cannot live on the Gold Coast because of the tsetse fly, which spreads amongst them the sleeping sickness.
• Then came the rains, the bad will of the natives, and the loss of the beasts of burden, from falling under the stings of the tsetse.
• Herdsmen and their cattle cover the steppes and highlands, save where the tsetse fly prevents.

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