zimb

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  1. A dipterous insect of Abyssinia, resembling and related to the tsetse of southern Africa, and very destructive to cattle.

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  • Bruce thought that the fly of the fourth plague was the "zimb" of —  Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
  • lxxviii. 45, that the insects by which the Egyptians were tormented "devoured them," so that here are two peculiarities inapplicable to the domestic fly, but strongly characteristic of gnats and mosquitoes Bruce thought that the fly of the fourth plague was the "zimb" of Abyssinia which he so graphically describes: and WESTWOOD, in an ingenious passage in his Entomologist's Text-book. —  Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
 

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