tsingala
English
editEtymology
editFrom Malagasy.
Noun
edittsingala
- 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.