zimb

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Amharic [script needed] (zemb), [script needed] (zimb).

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zimb (plural zimbs)

  1. (archaic) An Ethiopian horsefly of the genus Pangonius, destructive to livestock.
    • 1840, Robert Montgomery Martin, Colonial magazine and commercial-maritime journal: Volume 3, page 155:
      The illustrious Bruce and others imagine, that in the zimb of Abyssinia they recognize the fly plague which afflicted the Egyptians.
    • 1854, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, A history of all nations, from the earliest periods to the present time, volume 2, page 608:
      The zimb-fly sometimes depopulates whole territories, causing man and beast to fly from the lowlands into the mountains or the desert. Both the scorpion and locust infest the country.

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