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Nimb vs Zimb - What's the difference?

nimb | zimb |

As nouns the difference between nimb and zimb

is that nimb is a nimbus or halo while zimb is an ethiopian horsefly of the genus (taxlink), destructive to livestock.

nimb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A nimbus or halo.

    • Derived terms

    * nimbed ----

    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.