Crossword clues for african
african
- Nelson Mandela, e.g
- Malian or Mauritanian
- Like warthogs and wildebeests
- Like the larger-eared elephant
- Like the earliest humans
- Like some violets
- Like okapis and giraffes
- Like most lions
- Like impalas
- Like a seventh of the world's people
- Libyan or Liberian, e.g
- Kenyan, e.g
- From Timbuktu, e.g
- From Ouagadougou, e.g
- Eritrean, e.g
- Egyptian or Ethiopian
- Cinematic Queen
- Alan Paton, e.g
- Kind of violet
- From Niger or Nigeria
- A native or inhabitant of Africa
- Tutu or Bongo
- Alan Paton, e.g.
- Continental's day in a prison
- One type of elephant
- Kenya native, e.g
- From one continent
- Father and I are able to accompany a fellow from 20?
- Person one day goes to prison
- Person from south of the Mediterranean
- Kind of lily
- Like some elephants
- Type of violet
- What kind of rains were blessed, to Toto
- Somali or Sudanese
- One of a billion or so
The Collaborative International Dictionary
African \Af"ri*can\, n. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
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 ( Tagetes erecta).
African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building.
African violet .
African-American, see African-American.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English Africanas (plural), from Latin Africanus (adj.), from Africa (see Africa). Used of white residents of Africa from 1815. Used of black residents of the U.S. from late 18c., when it especially meant "one brought from Africa" and sometimes was contrasted to native-born Negro. As an adjective by 1560s, "pertaining to Africa or Africans" (Old English had Africanisc); from 1789 as "of or pertaining to black Americans."
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to Africa. n. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
WordNet
Wikipedia
African(s) may refer to:
- Anything from or pertaining to Africa:
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African people, people who live in Africa or trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa
- Ethnic groups of Africa
- African cuisine
- African culture
- African languages
- African music
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African people, people who live in Africa or trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa
- African grey parrot, an Old World parrot
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.