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Ethiopian vs Zimb - What's the difference?

ethiopian | zimb |

As nouns the difference between ethiopian and zimb

is that ethiopian is a person from ethiopia or of ethiopian descent while zimb is an ethiopian horsefly of the genus (taxlink), destructive to livestock.

As an adjective ethiopian

is of, from, or pertaining to ethiopia, the ethiopian people or the ethiopian culture.

ethiopian

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person from Ethiopia or of Ethiopian descent.
  • (label) A black-skinned person.

    • Holonyms

    * sub-Saharan * Horner, Horn African * African

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Ethiopia, the Ethiopian people or the Ethiopian culture.
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Africa and the African diaspora.

    • zimb

    English

    (wikipedia zimb) (Pangonia)

    Noun

  • An Ethiopian horsefly of the genus (taxlink), destructive to livestock.
  • * 1840 , Robert Montgomery Martin, Colonial magazine and commercial-maritime journal: Volume 3 (page 155)
    • The illustrious Bruce and others imagine, that in the zimb of Abyssinia they recognize the fly plague which afflicted the Egyptians.
  • * 1854 , Samuel Griswold Goodrich, A history of all nations, from the earliest periods to the present time (volume 2, page 608)
    • The zimb -fly sometimes depopulates whole territories, causing man and beast to fly from the lowlands into the mountains or the desert. Both the scorpion and locust infest the country.