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one of the large landmasses of the earth
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the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
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a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries
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08504375-n:
an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile; much of Nubia is now under Lake Nasser
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08597323-n:
the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia
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any one of the countries occupying the African continent
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a geographical area in eastern Africa
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08699654-n:
a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa
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08707917-n:
a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990
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08716219-n:
a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika
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08717209-n:
a republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960
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08718577-n:
a landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960
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a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960
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08734044-n:
a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960
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08734385-n:
a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
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08736517-n:
a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa
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a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control
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a republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; formerly under French control
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a country in northeastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; formerly under French control but became independent in 1997
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a country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea); became independent from Spain in 1968
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Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia
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08800258-n:
an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome
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08815046-n:
a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony
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a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s
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a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
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a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya
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a republic on the west coast of Africa
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08945821-n:
a narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa
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a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
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08947319-n:
a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958
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08947772-n:
a republic on the northwestern coast of Africa; recognized as independent by Portugal in 1974
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a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
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08959254-n:
a republic in West Africa; established in 1822 by Americans as a way to free negro slaves
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08959683-n:
a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
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a republic on the island of Madagascar; achieved independence from France in 1960
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a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964
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08965598-n:
a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years
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08966820-n:
a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara Desert
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a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975
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08973330-n:
a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert
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08973776-n:
a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country
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08995862-n:
a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960
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08996871-n:
a republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961
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08998560-n:
a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare
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08999154-n:
a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
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08999482-n:
a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)
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09029242-n:
a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
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09029457-n:
a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
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09031233-n:
a landlocked monarchy in southeastern Africa; member of the commonwealth that achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1968
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a republic in eastern Africa
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a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
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a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962
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a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964
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a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
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the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
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the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert
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an area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea
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an area of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea
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( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
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a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river
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the longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley
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the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River
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an African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad
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of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
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relating to or coming from Europe and Africa
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of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
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00309906-n:
an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)
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01303252-n:
either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881); the second when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain (1899-1902)
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08699654-n:
a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa
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a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
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a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia)
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in a southern direction
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to, toward, or in the east
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above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
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one of the large landmasses of the earth
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the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
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the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south
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that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the south of the equator
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00309906-n:
an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)
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the herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis; associated with specific cancers in Africa and China
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slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes
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small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa
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crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
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small hawk of Eurasia and northern Africa
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brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia
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any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia
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01617095-n:
large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
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small mostly white vulture of Africa and southern Eurasia
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of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
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largest living frog; up to a foot and weighing up to 10 lbs; Africa
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almost completely aquatic frog native to Africa and Panama and northern South America
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01654637-n:
a tongueless frog native to Africa; established in the United States as result of release of laboratory and aquarium animals
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lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
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01694178-n:
a chameleon found in Africa
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01694709-n:
any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
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01697457-n:
a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa
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01707698-n:
massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period
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blind snakes of Asia and Africa and Americas
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very large python of tropical and southern Africa
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any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia
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01746952-n:
small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange
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01748264-n:
a cobra of tropical Africa and Asia
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01748686-n:
aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa; rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness
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01749244-n:
highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet
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arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal
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highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye
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guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar
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01809106-n:
a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
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01816140-n:
sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers
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01817953-n:
commonly domesticated grey parrot with red-and-black tail and white face; native to equatorial Africa
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01825278-n:
large brightly crested bird of Africa
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01829413-n:
bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers
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01842788-n:
small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae
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01848648-n:
freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals
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01890564-n:
mole of southern Africa having iridescent guard hairs mixed with the underfur
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01933988-n:
parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
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01953594-n:
cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa
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01983829-n:
small lobster of southern Africa
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large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle
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02006985-n:
pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa
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small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
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common snipe of Eurasia and Africa
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stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings
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02039171-n:
swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
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small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck; found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States
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small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call
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02074367-n:
sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate
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nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
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02116738-n:
a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area
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02117135-n:
doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
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of northern Africa and Arabia and India
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of southern Africa
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02118176-n:
striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects
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02125872-n:
widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor
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02127678-n:
of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia
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02129165-n:
large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male
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02130308-n:
long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game
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02138777-n:
burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet
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02143891-n:
any of numerous bats of the family Hipposideridae of northwest Africa or Philippines or Australia having a horseshoe-shaped leaf on the nose
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02324850-n:
common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young are born naked and helpless
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02344175-n:
gerbil of northern Africa
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02352002-n:
small nocturnal jumping rodent with long hind legs; of arid parts of Asia and northern Africa
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dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa
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02370137-n:
colonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat
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02372584-n:
any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
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02390454-n:
any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa
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02390640-n:
a wild ass of Africa
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02391234-n:
of the plains of central and eastern Africa
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02391373-n:
narrow-striped nearly extinct zebra of southern Africa
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02391994-n:
massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
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02393024-n:
most common species in Africa
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02398521-n:
massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
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02409508-n:
large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves
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02416104-n:
wild sheep of northern Africa
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02417914-n:
wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and northern Africa having large recurved horns
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02420675-n:
antelopes of eastern Africa: gerenuks
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02421136-n:
large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa
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02421612-n:
genus comprising some small antelopes of eastern and northeastern Africa
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02421792-n:
any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit
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02423022-n:
small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes
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02424085-n:
large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
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02426481-n:
small plains antelope of southeastern Africa
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02427032-n:
dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa
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02427183-n:
large dark striped eland of western equatorial Africa
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02427470-n:
an orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa
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02437312-n:
one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia
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02439033-n:
tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
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02444384-n:
muishond of northern Africa
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02448318-n:
nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia
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02461830-n:
toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
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02476870-n:
gracile hominid of southern Africa; from about 3 million years ago
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02477028-n:
large-toothed hominid of eastern Africa; from 1 to 2 million years ago
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large-toothed hominid of southern Africa; from 1.5 to 2 million years ago; formerly Paranthropus
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masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa; distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees; possibly a distinct species
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long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa; closely related to the central chimpanzees
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black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa; closely related to eastern chimpanzees
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of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
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greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa
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short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
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tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar
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arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs
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an elephant native to Africa having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks
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a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa
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fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
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freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ
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small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia
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tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America
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freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
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important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor
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found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins
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the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa
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of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples
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of or relating to northern Africa
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an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa
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a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body
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a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa
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a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa
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a pen for livestock in southern Africa
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a religious cult based on a belief that Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie) is the Messiah and that Africa (especially Ethiopia) is the Promised Land
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a schismatic Christian religion in northern Africa from the 4th to the 7th century; held that only those who led a blameless life belonged in the church or could administer the sacraments
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belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies
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a family of languages spoken in southern Africa
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a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
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a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
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a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic
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a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco
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the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula)
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the Bantu language of the Chewa of east central Africa
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a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa
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the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
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the language of the Tongan people of south central Africa (Zambia and Rhodesia)
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a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina
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any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
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a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew
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an Algerian extremist Islamic offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group; now the largest and most active armed terrorist group in Algeria that seeks to overthrow the government; a major source of support and recruitment for al-Qaeda operations in Europe and northern Africa
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underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
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a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa meet to discuss some important question
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an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa
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a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries
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the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
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an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile; much of Nubia is now under Lake Nasser
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the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
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the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia
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an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located
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the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa
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a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade
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elevated open grassland in southern Africa
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a geographical area in eastern Africa
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a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa
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a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s
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an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
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a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990
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a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika
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a republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960
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a landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960
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a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960
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a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960
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a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
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08736517-n:
a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa
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a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control
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a republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; formerly under French control
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a country in northeastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; formerly under French control but became independent in 1997
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a country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea); became independent from Spain in 1968
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Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia
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the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century
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an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome
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a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony
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a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s
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the former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar
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the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast
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a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960
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a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
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the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
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an ancient city on the north coast of Africa (northwest of Carthage); destroyed by Arabs around 700 AD
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a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya
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a republic on the west coast of Africa
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a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958
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a republic on the northwestern coast of Africa; recognized as independent by Portugal in 1974
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a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
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a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
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an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa; the 4th largest island in the world
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a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964
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a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years
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a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara Desert
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a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956
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an area in northwestern Africa with rich phosphate deposits; under Moroccan control since 1992
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a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975
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an island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa; the largest of the Madeira Islands
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island nation in the South Atlantic off the west coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves
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08995862-n:
a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960
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a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare
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a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
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a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)
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a group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish provinces
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a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands
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a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
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a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
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a landlocked monarchy in southeastern Africa; member of the commonwealth that achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1968
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a republic in eastern Africa
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an island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa; part of the United Republic of Tanzania
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a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956
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a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
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a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962
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a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964
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a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
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a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana
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the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
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the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert
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an area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea
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an area of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea
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the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
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a mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert; extends from southwestern Morocco to northern Tunisia
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a broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa
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a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
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( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
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a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa
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the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south
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the isthmus in northeastern Egypt that connects Africa and Asia
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a river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo
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the highest peak in Africa; located in northeastern Tanzania; 19,340 feet high
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a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda
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a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river
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a long lake in southeastern Africa between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi
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the longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley
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the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River
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the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
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an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa
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the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
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a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal
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the strait between Spain and Africa
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a major waterfall in southern Africa; has more than one leap
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gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season
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a native or inhabitant of Africa
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a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
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a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa
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a member of a Muslim dynasty of Berber warriors that flourished from 1049 to 1145 and that established political dominance over northwestern Africa and Spain
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a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith
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a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
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a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa
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a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa
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an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia)
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a primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa
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(offensive British slang) term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
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Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians
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United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)
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Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962)
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United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992)
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Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)
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Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
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American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)
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a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter
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11599324-n:
curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old
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erect or shrubby tree of Africa having ridged dark grey bark and rigid glossy medium to long leaves
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dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus
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11715810-n:
white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians
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11755694-n:
large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa
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11768242-n:
small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa
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11769002-n:
one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia
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11770013-n:
genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia
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11772702-n:
genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia
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11796318-n:
minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond; America and Africa
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11803277-n:
a family of flowering plants in Africa and Argentina that are parasitic on the roots of other plants
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11820463-n:
any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones
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11824344-n:
erect annual of tropical central Asia and Africa having a pair of divergent spines at most leaf nodes
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11825013-n:
annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
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(rgloss)
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11860801-n:
small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia
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11898079-n:
small genus of herbs of north temperate regions and mountains of tropical Africa
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11909048-n:
erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
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11981817-n:
large genus of perennial hairy herbs of Europe to western Asia to northwestern Africa and North America; few are ornamental; often considered congeneric with Pilosella
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12034828-n:
family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia
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(rgloss)
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12074678-n:
a hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia
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12088768-n:
yam of tropical Africa and Asia cultivated for it large tubers
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(rgloss)
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12097013-n:
evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand)
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12115563-n:
creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa
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12116058-n:
perennial grass having stems 3 to 4 feet high; used especially in Africa and India for pasture and hay
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12128825-n:
tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
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(rgloss)
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12129134-n:
tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia
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(rgloss)
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12139367-n:
grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands
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(rgloss)
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12181851-n:
small genus of herbs of southeastern United States and tropical America and Africa
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(rgloss)
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12199564-n:
small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
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(rgloss)
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12263204-n:
wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
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(rgloss)
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12265900-n:
beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech
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(rgloss)
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12278650-n:
medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork
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12298783-n:
genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa
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(rgloss)
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12299425-n:
genus of evergreen trees or shrubs; fruit is a drupe; grows in Africa through Arabia to India and China
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12325234-n:
shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin
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12329020-n:
shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers
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12346179-n:
family of trees and shrubs and herbs having tough bark that are found especially in Australia and tropical Africa
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(rgloss)
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12371911-n:
one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies
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12372708-n:
trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
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12378080-n:
often spiny trees or shrubs of tropical Asia and Africa
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(rgloss)
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12378546-n:
small genus of sometimes spiny shrubs or small trees; Africa; India; Sri Lanka
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12403513-n:
thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
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(rgloss)
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12410205-n:
an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia
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(rgloss)
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12419217-n:
type genus of the Amaryllidaceae; bulbous flowering plants of southern Africa
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12423211-n:
any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America
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12436677-n:
succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in Africa
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12455950-n:
any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous
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(rgloss)
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12494629-n:
evergreen or deciduous trees of tropical Africa and India
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(rgloss)
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12501035-n:
widely cultivated tropical trees originally of Africa
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(rgloss)
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12505987-n:
small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa
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(rgloss)
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12508936-n:
small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar
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(rgloss)
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12519328-n:
large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa
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12520223-n:
small genus of annual usually hairy herbs of tropical Africa and Arabia
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(rgloss)
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12547658-n:
annual or perennial vines of Africa and India and Australia; plants often placed in genus Dolichos
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12585629-n:
tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
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(rgloss)
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12590499-n:
oil palm of Africa
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12593826-n:
a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
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12594746-n:
feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes
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12594989-n:
a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks
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(rgloss)
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12616996-n:
very similar to Potamogeton; of western Africa, Asia, and Europe
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(rgloss)
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12663023-n:
shrubby tree of northeastern tropical Africa widely cultivated in tropical or near tropical regions for its seed which form most of the commercial coffee
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12670334-n:
a stout spreading or semi-climbing tropical shrub with round brownish-red warty fruit; Africa
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12670758-n:
small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
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12692521-n:
small evergreen tree of Africa and Asia; leaves have a strong aromatic odor when bruised
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(rgloss)
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12692714-n:
tree of eastern Africa and Asia yielding myrrh
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(rgloss)
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12700831-n:
genus of trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia and Australia
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(rgloss)
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12701178-n:
family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa
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(rgloss)
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12742878-n:
herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa
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(rgloss)
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12743009-n:
woody perennial climbing plant with large ornamental seed pods that resemble balloons; tropical India and Africa and America
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12783316-n:
floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water fleas
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(rgloss)
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12817855-n:
anchusa of southern Africa having blue flowers with white throats
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(rgloss)
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12818004-n:
anchusa of southern Africa having blue to red-purple flowers
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(rgloss)
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12821895-n:
small biennial to perennial herb of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia having blue, purple or white flowers
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(rgloss)
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12868418-n:
genus of shrubby often succulent herbs of tropical Africa and Asia; includes some plants often placed in genus Coleus
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12895298-n:
woolly-stemmed biennial arborescent shrub of tropical Africa and southern Asia having silvery-white prickly branches, clusters of blue or white flowers, and bright red berries resembling holly berries
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(rgloss)
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12916511-n:
tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
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(rgloss)
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12921660-n:
small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra
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12924623-n:
large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics
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12935609-n:
large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
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(rgloss)
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13173882-n:
mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia
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(rgloss)
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13175484-n:
large robust epiphytic ferns of tropical forest and scrub; Africa and Asia and Australia
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(rgloss)
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13176201-n:
epiphytic ferns of tropical America and Africa
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(rgloss)
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13176523-n:
tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia
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(rgloss)
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13176714-n:
tropical Africa to Australasia and Polynesia
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(rgloss)
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13180875-n:
spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent
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(rgloss)
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13185998-n:
large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa; Asia; Australasia
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(rgloss)
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13206438-n:
terrestrial ferns of tropical Asia and Africa
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(rgloss)
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13213066-n:
fern of southern tropical Africa having fronds with white undersides
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(rgloss)
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13219422-n:
perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America
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(rgloss)
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13228194-n:
epiphytic or terrestrial ferns of America and Africa and Polynesia
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(rgloss)
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13236495-n:
any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods; roots formerly used as an emetic
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(rgloss)
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13237788-n:
succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia
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(rgloss)
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13238178-n:
genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India
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(rgloss)
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14135623-n:
a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
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(rgloss)
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14135956-n:
an acute contagious viral disease of central western Africa; characterized by fever and inflammation and muscular pains and difficulty swallowing; can be used as a bioweapon
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(rgloss)
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14179569-n:
an infection common in Africa caused by a bunyavirus; transmitted by mosquitoes or by handling infected animals
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(rgloss)
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14182103-n:
a contagious fungal infection of the scalp; occurs mainly in Africa and the Middle East
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(rgloss)
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14454030-n:
infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
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(rgloss)
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15061674-n:
a bitter and very toxic glycoside derived from plants of the genus Strophanthus; in moderate doses it is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses it is a powerful poison; used in Africa as an arrow poison
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