Enter your text below and click here to find synonyms
Synonyms for Tsetse:
-
n.
• glossina • tsetse Other relevant words:
• tzetze fly
Usage examples for Tsetse
The encampment being outside the tsetse fly area, the party had brought both cattle and horses with them.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
It is probably transmitted from animal to animal solely by the bites of the tsetse fly.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
But take us to some new environment to which we are not accustomed; take us to Panama in the old days of yellow fever, or take us to Africa, and let the tsetse fly bite us, and infect us with "sleeping sickness."
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Famous quotes with Tsetse
-
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies. (Alternative models include the hundredth dune after the death of all camels, or the thousandth crevasse following the demise of all sled dogs.)
-
An Asian peasant who labors through all of his waking hours, with tools created in Biblical times—a South American aborigine who is devoured by piranha in a jungle stream—an African who is bitten by the tsetse fly—an Arab whose teeth are green with decay in his mouth—these do live with their 'natural environment,' but are scarcely able to appreciate its beauty. Try to tell a Chinese mother, whose child is dying of cholera: 'Should one do everything one can? Of course not.' Try to tell a Russian housewife, who trudges miles on foot in sub-zero weather in order to spend hours standing in line at a state store dispensing food rations, that America is defiled by shopping centers, expressways and family cars.
Word of the Day
more fossilized
- Synonyms:
- fossilized, hard, hardened, petrified, rigid, anachronistic, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic.