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Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared 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…

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.

Of European and African descent.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

African. -- n.

n by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

A bark canoe used by the Africans.

An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

eeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

cket (Zoöl.), the European cicada. Tennyson. -- Balm of Gilead (Bot.), a small evergreen African and Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family (Balsamodendron Gileadense). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this tree is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca. This has…

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

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.

An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvæ of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.

An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet.

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

se skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.