Advertisement

tsetse (n.)

fly of tropical Africa, 1849, probably via South African Dutch, from a Bantu language (compare Setswana tsetse, Luyia tsiisi "flies").

Others are reading

Advertisement
Definitions of tsetse from WordNet

tsetse (n.)
bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.;
Synonyms: tsetse fly / tzetze fly / tzetze / glossina
From wordnet.princeton.edu