tsingala

English

Etymology

From Malagasy.

Noun

tsingala

  1. A poisonous insect of Madagascar.
    • 2000, Peter Tyson, The Eighth Continent, page 81:
      In the last century, one Rev. H. T. Johnson described a tsingala assault on one of his palanquin-bearers, who minutes before had drunk from a dirty pool while traveling near the town of Fianarantsoa.

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