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单词 nagana
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Definition of nagana in English:

nagana

noun nəˈɡɑːnənəˈɡänə
mass noun
  • A disease of cattle, antelope, and other livestock in southern Africa, characterized by fever, lethargy, and oedema, and caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by the tsetse fly.

    (非洲南部的)家畜锥虫病

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Tsetse flies that infect cattle with nagana (animal trypanosomosis) have been ‘all but eradicated from Zimbabwe's farming areas’ he says.
    • Here's an interesting strategy to control and eradicate sleeping sickness and nagana.
    • The tsetse fly carries the trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
    • Trypanosomiasis, also locally known as nagana, threatens some 50 million cattle in Africa, according to a recent report by FAO.
    • Further north the scourge of tsetse fly, vector of the disease nagana, limited the use of cattle as draught.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Zulu nakane.

Definition of nagana in US English:

nagana

nounnəˈɡänə
  • A disease of cattle, antelope, and other livestock in southern Africa, characterized by fever, lethargy, and edema, and caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by the tsetse fly.

    (非洲南部的)家畜锥虫病

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Tsetse flies that infect cattle with nagana (animal trypanosomosis) have been ‘all but eradicated from Zimbabwe's farming areas’ he says.
    • Further north the scourge of tsetse fly, vector of the disease nagana, limited the use of cattle as draught.
    • The tsetse fly carries the trypanosome parasite, which causes sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock.
    • Trypanosomiasis, also locally known as nagana, threatens some 50 million cattle in Africa, according to a recent report by FAO.
    • Here's an interesting strategy to control and eradicate sleeping sickness and nagana.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Zulu nakane.

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