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african

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Word definitions for african in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to Africa. n. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
African \Af"ri*can\, a. [L. Africus, Africanus, fr. Afer African.] Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp , a fiber prepared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis , a plant found in Africa and India. African marigold , a tropical American plant ...

Usage examples of african.

Or in an Accra daily, with African politicians complaining of neo-colonial exploitation.

Thus, in December, a representative from Toussaint, Joseph Bunel, dined with Adams, marking the first time a man of African descent was the dinner guest of an American President.

Ralph picked up one of them, it was of the lovely dark scarlet trumpet flowers of Kigeha Africana, the African sausage tree.

That sound no African, native or Africander, likes to hear when he is on foot at night.

If you could demonstrate your Africanism to two hundred million Africans, how great might your influence become.

VICIOUS BEES TERRIFY SOUTH AFRICANS: 5 KILLED BY STINGS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Notoriously vicious bees, apparently irritated more than usual by hot weather, have terrified South AFRICANS with angry attacks in the last six months.

Besides, Kerr planned to crossbreed his Africans to produce a more gentle bee.

In 1956 a Brazilian entomologist had imported African bees with the idea of crossbreeding them with Brazilian bees and creating a bee family as industrious as the Africans but as as the European bee.

Soon, having reproduced to the point of crowding, some Africans would swarm and settle in the wilds.

The Africans seemed to prefer trees for their hives, but they were capable of attacking an anthill, driving out the ants and remodelling the hill for themselves.

He bought a theory that even if the Africans came in, American bees would kill them the moment they showed in a hive.

The Africans are just as much the enemy of the A -- h- as they are our own.

They will mate with the Africans, enter the hives and do battle with the African queens.

The idea is that they will pass on defects to their progeny, and that their queens and drones will similarly breed and increase the defective population until enough Africans have enough bad genes to make them selfdestructive.

Further, these Africans have a tendency to abscond when the population grows.