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Naganas\'

[nuh-gah-nuh]

na·ga·na

[nuh-gah-nuh]
noun Veterinary Pathology.
1.
a disease of horses and other animals, widespread in parts of Africa, caused by the organism Trypanosoma brucei, and transmitted by a variety of tsetse fly.
2.
any trypanosomal disease of animals that is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
Also, n'gana.
Also called tsetse disease.


Origin:
1890–95; < Nguni; compare Zulu unukane, ulunakane, izinakane
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Naganas' is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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