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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A West African fly of the genus Glossina, a tsetse-fly.

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  • “There are the crocodiles, more of them than any one wants; there are quantities of flies, particularly the big silent mangrove-fly which lays an egg in you under the skin; the egg becomes a maggot and stays there until it feels fit to enter into external life.”

    Travels in West Africa

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