GENUS GLOSSINA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Glossinidae: tsetse flies

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Glossina" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Glossina"):

glossina; tsetse; tsetse fly; tzetze; tzetze fly (bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.)

Holonyms ("genus Glossina" is a member of...):

family Glossinidae; Glossinidae (flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies)

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