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Africanism :: Africanism (n.) A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans..

Greegree :: Greegree (n.) An African talisman or Gri'gri' charm.

Loki :: Loki (n.) The evil deity, the author of all calamities and mischief, answering to the African of the Persians..

Pallah :: Pallah (n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok..

Tsetse :: Tsetse (n.) A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year..

Meerkat :: Meerkat (n.) A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons..

Koba :: Koba (n.) Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing..

Lawsonia :: Lawsonia (n.) An Asiatic and North African shrub (Lawsonia inermis), with smooth oval leaves, and fragrant white flowers. Henna is prepared from the leaves and twigs. In England the shrub is called Egyptian privet, and in the West Indies, Jamaica mignonette..

Chimpanzee :: Chimpanzee (n.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high..

Donatist :: Donatist (n.) A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church..

Konze :: Konze (n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face..

Mahoohoo :: Mahoohoo (n.) The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

Cerastes :: Cerastes (n.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper..

Lalo :: Lalo (n.) The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous..

Gonakie :: Gonakie (n.) An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).

Zenick :: Zenick (n.) A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat..

Goliath Beetle :: Goliath beetle () Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles..

Baobab :: Baobab (n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia..

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