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Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.

Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.

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

To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser.

A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f

ing greenish flowers with orange- colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.

A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also mhorr.]

neumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." Internat. Cyc.

A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa. One species (Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of M. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.

The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.

A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.

The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe. [Written also nubk.] See Lotus (b), and Sadr.

The disease caused by the tsetse fly. [South Africa]

A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).

An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.

The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandiflora).

lly, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.