glossina

8 letters · noun · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr

noun

bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.

Glossina 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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