| falcon | diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight |
peregrine
peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus | a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry |
falcon-gentle
falcon-gentil | female falcon especially a female peregrine falcon |
African clawed frog
Xenopus laevis | a tongueless frog native to Africa, established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals |
African chameleon
Chamaeleo chamaeleon | a chameleon found in Africa |
African monitor
Varanus niloticus | destroys crocodile eggs |
African crocodile
Nile crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus | a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa |
African coral snake
Aspidelaps lubricus | small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange |
African grey
African gray
Psittacus erithacus | commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face, native to equatorial Africa |
pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps | small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America |
African hunting dog
hyena dog
Cape hunting dog
Lycaon pictus | a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs, now rare in settled area |
pygmy mouse
Baiomys taylori | very small dark greyish brown mouse resembling a house mouse, of Texas and Mexico |
African wild ass
Equus asinus | a wild ass of Africa |
pygmy chimpanzee
bonobo
Pan paniscus | small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire, a threatened species |
green monkey
African green monkey
Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus | common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail |
pygmy marmoset
Cebuella pygmaea | the smallest monkey, of tropical forests of the Amazon |
African elephant
Loxodonta africana | an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks |
kat
khat
qat
quat
cat Arabian tea
African tea | the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea, has the effect of a euphoric stimulant, in Yemen kat is used daily by % of adults |
African American Vernacular English
AAVE
African American English
Black English
Black English Vernacular
Black Vernacular
Black Vernacular English
Ebonics | a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States |
Afrikaans
Taal
South African Dutch | an official language of the Republic of South Africa, closely related to Dutch and Flemish |
| West African | a group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa |
black music
African-American music | music created by African-American musicians, early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses |
African country
African nation | any one of the countries occupying the African continent |
Central African Republic
Central Africa | a landlocked country in central Africa, formerly under French control, became independent in |
| African | a native or inhabitant of Africa |
| Black African | an African who is Black |
African-American
African American
Afro-American
Black American | an American whose ancestors were born in Africa |
| South African | a native or inhabitant of South Africa |
Pygmy
Pigmy | any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet |
| pygmy pigmy | an unusually small individual |
Scott Robert Scott
Robert Falcon Scott | English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen, he and his party died on the return journey (-) |
pygmy cypress
Cupressus pigmaea
Cupressus goveniana pigmaea | rare small cypress native to northern California, sometimes considered the same species as gowen cypress |
east African cedar
Juniperus procera | tropical African timber tree with fragrant wood |
cape yellowwood
African yellowwood
Podocarpus elongatus | South African tree or shrub having a rounded crown |
South-African yellowwood
Podocarpus latifolius | erect or shrubby tree of Africa having ridged dark grey bark and rigid glossy medium to long leaves |
| African daisy | any of several plants of the genus Arctotis having daisylike flowers |
blue-eyed African daisy
Arctotis stoechadifolia
Arctotis venusta | bushy perennial of South Africa with white or violet flowers, in its native region often clothes entire valley sides in a sheet of color |
| African daisy | African or Asiatic herbs with daisylike flowers |
African daisy yellow ageratum
Lonas inodora
Lonas annua | shrub of southwestern Mediterranean region having yellow daisylike flowers |
African marigold
big marigold
Aztec marigold
Tagetes erecta | a stout branching annual with large yellow to orange flower heads, Mexico and Central America |
finger millet
ragi
ragee
African millet
coracan
corakan
kurakkan
Eleusine coracana | East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient |
weeping love grass
African love grass
Eragrostis curvula | perennial South African grass having densely clumped flimsy stems, introduced into United States especially for erosion control |
| African hemp Sparmannia africana | large shrub of South Africa having many conspicuously hairy branches with large hairy leaves and clusters of conspicuous white flowers |
African lily
African tulip
blue African lily
Agapanthus africanus | African plant with bright green evergreen leaves and umbels of many usually deep violet-blue flowers |
African bowstring hemp
African hemp Sansevieria guineensis | bowstring hemp of South Africa |
camwood
African sandalwood
Baphia nitida | small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye |
African oil palm
Elaeis guineensis | oil palm of Africa |
African scented mahogany
cedar mahogany
sapele mahogany
Entandrophragma cylindricum | African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown |
| African mahogany | African tree having hard heavy odorless wood |
African walnut
Lovoa klaineana | tropical African timber tree with wood that resembles mahogany |