[Amharic.] A dipterous insect of Abyssinia, allied to and resembling the tsetse, and very destructive to cattle.
1790. Jas. Bruce, Trav., I. 388. Large swarms of flies appeared wherever that loomy earth was…. This insect is called Zimb.… It is in size very little larger than a bee.
a. 1827. Good Ps. cv. 31 (1854), 415. He spake, and the zimb-fly came.
