tsetse

A noun referring to a bloodsucking African fly that transmits sleeping sickness and other diseases.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa uma mosca africana hematófaga do gênero Glossina, transmissora da doença do sono e de outras enfermidades.

1. Bloodsucking African fly C1 formal scientific

   A bloodsucking African fly of the genus Glossina that transmits sleeping sickness and other diseases.

   • The tsetse fly is found in sub-Saharan Africa.
   • Tsetse flies transmit the parasite that causes sleeping sickness.
   • Farmers in affected regions take precautions against tsetse bites.

   🇵🇹Mosca tsé-tsé

   Sinônimos: glossinatsetse fly