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AFRICAN |
From Africa |
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GNU |
Novel-sounding beast from Africa |
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ELAND |
Badly laden animal from Africa |
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SIROCCO |
Oppressive wind from North Africa |
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SAFARI |
Trek far. I started from South Africa |
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SOFA |
Piece of furniture from the wilds of Africa |
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TSETSE |
Fly from Africa to see one bad set after another |
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CORA |
The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to
North Africa. |
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ORCHARD |
Richard lost two characters from the heart of Africa, or substituted them, for the grove |
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BDELLIUM |
A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India,
Persia, and Africa. |
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CINERARIA |
A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants,
mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament. |
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UNCIVILIZED |
Not civilized; not reclaimed from savage life; rude;
barbarous; savage; as, the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa. |
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SARCOCOLLA |
A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa
(Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. |
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WATER TREE |
A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, / potatoria) of
Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut
stems. |
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COLONIZATIONIST |
A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the
colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the
United States. |
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BARBARY |
The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to
the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of
pigeon. |
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DIKA |
A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the
Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; --
called also dika bread. |
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ANGOLA PEA |
A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a
kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also
pigeon pea and Congo pea. |
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DEPENDENCY |
A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which
it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain
has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America. |
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BARWOOD |
A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from
Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for
ramrods, violin bows and turner's work. |
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HARMATTAN |
... of
Africa, in December, January, and February, blowing from the interior
or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.... |
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MIGRATE |
To remove from one country or region to another, with a
view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as,
the Moors who mig... |
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COPAL |
A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of
Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum,
T. verrucosum, a... |
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COFFEE |
The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes
of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia,
Arabia, Persia... |
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BERBER |
... but often
classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of
North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, ... |