Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A West African fly of the genus Glossina, a tsetse-fly.
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Examples
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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.
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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 Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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