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Meaning of glossina | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A tsetse fly; any fly of the genus Glossina.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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