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AFRICAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Africa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("African" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "African"):
Moroccan (a native or inhabitant of Morocco)
Mozambican (a native or inhabitant of Mozambique)
Namibian (a native or inhabitant of Namibia)
Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)
Nigerien (a native or inhabitant of Niger)
Senegalese (a native or inhabitant of Senegal)
Sierra Leonean (a native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone)
South African (a native or inhabitant of South Africa)
Sudanese (a native or inhabitant of Sudan)
Swazi (a member of a southeast African people living in Swaziland and adjacent areas)
Tanzanian (a native or inhabitant of Tanzania)
Togolese (a native or inhabitant of Togo)
Tuareg (a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara)
Tunisian (a native or inhabitant of Tunisia)
Ugandan (a native or inhabitant of Uganda)
Gambian (a native or inhabitant of Gambia)
Ghanian (a native or inhabitant of Ghana)
Guinean (a native or inhabitant of Guinea)
Rwandan (a native or inhabitant of Rwanda)
Somali; Somalian (a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia)
Xhosa (a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa)
Zairean; Zairese (a native or inhabitant of Zaire)
Zambian (a native or inhabitant of Zambia)
Zimbabwean (a native or inhabitant of Zimbabwe)
Zulu (a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities)
Berber (a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa)
Black African (an African who is Black)
Eurafrican (a person of mixed European and African descent)
Algerian (a native or inhabitant of Algeria)
Angolan (a native or inhabitant of Angola)
Basotho (a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho)
Bantu (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)
Beninese (a native or inhabitant of Benin)
Burundian (a native or inhabitant of Burundi)
Cameroonian (a native or inhabitant of Cameroon)
Carthaginian (a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage)
Chadian (a native or inhabitant of Chad)
Cewa; Chewa; Chichewa (a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe)
Congolese (a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo)
Djiboutian (a native or inhabitant of Djibouti)
Egyptian (a native or inhabitant of Egypt)
Ethiopian (a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia)
Ewe (a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana)
Fellata; Fula; Fulah; Fulani; Fulbe (a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith)
Gabonese (a native or inhabitant of Gabon)
Kenyan (a native or inhabitant of Kenya)
Liberian (a native or inhabitant of Liberia)
Libyan (a native or inhabitant of Libya)
Madagascan (a native or inhabitant of Madagascar)
Malawian (a native or inhabitant of Malawi)
Malian (a native or inhabitant of Mali)
Mauritanian (a native or inhabitant of Mauritania)
Derivation:
African (of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
Example:
African languages
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Derivation:
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)
Context examples:
Denotes a person of African ancestral origins whose family settled in the Caribbean region.
(African Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)
Additionally Vero cells, an African green monkey kidney epithelial cell line, are widely used in immunology and infectious disease research.
(African Green Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic water-soluble analogue of combretastatin A4, derived from the South African willow bush (Combretum caffrum), labeled with carbon C 14 with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Carbon C 14 Ombrabulin, NCI Thesaurus)
AIDS related research with a minimum of 20% (or $100,000) relevance to individuals of African descent
(AIDS, Black, NCI Thesaurus)
About 1 in 10 African American males in the United States has it.
(G6PD Deficiency, NIH: National Library of Medicine)
They include: • African Americans over age 40 • People over age 60, especially Mexican Americans • People with a family history of glaucoma
(Glaucoma, NIH: National Eye Institute)
Denotes a person of European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestral origins whose family settled in a North American country such as the United States of America or Canada.
(North American, NCI Thesaurus)
It is most commonly found in West African countries and causes symptoms of infection resembling those of M. tuberculosis.
(Mycobacterium africanum, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic water-soluble analogue of combretastatin A4, derived from the South African willow bush (Combretum caffrum), with potential vascular-disrupting and antineoplastic activities.
(Ombrabulin, NCI Thesaurus)
The exogenous therapeutic form is isolated from the seeds of the African plant Griffonia simplicifolia.
(Oxitriptan, NCI Thesaurus)
