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| addax |
a large pale or whitish North African antelope that has long spiraling horns. |
| Algeria |
a North African country located between Morocco and Libya, formerly a French colony. |
| Arabian camel |
the single-humped camel native to the area from North Africa to India; dromedary. (Cf. Bactrian camel.) |
| Barbary ape |
a tailless monkey native to North Africa and Gibraltar. |
| Barbary Coast |
the North African Mediterranean coast from Egypt to the Atlantic, formerly known as a base for pirates. |
| Bedouin |
any tribe or member of a tribe of Arab nomads living in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, or North Africa. [1/2 definitions] |
| Berber |
a member of one of several North African Muslim tribes. [1/2 definitions] |
| Casbah |
(sometimes l.c.) the old, crowded native quarter of any of several North African cities, esp. Algiers. [2 definitions] |
| Caucasoid |
(outdated; no longer in scientific use) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of members of a human racial group originating in Europe, North Africa, western Asia, and India, generally characterized by fair to brown skin and straight to curly hair of any color. [1/2 definitions] |
| couscous |
a North African dish of steamed crushed grain such as semolina. |
| Egypt |
a North African country on the Mediterranean and Red Seas; Arab Republic of Egypt. |
| esparto |
either of two kinds of long, tough grass, found in Spain and North Africa, used in making paper, rope, shoes, and baskets. |
| grivet |
a small, long-tailed monkey of North Africa that has olive-gray fur and a dark face and paws, and that lives on the ground. |
| ibex |
any of a variety of mountain goats of Eurasia and North Africa, esp. those that have long, backward-curving horns. |
| Libya |
a North African country between Egypt and Tunisia. |
| Morocco |
a North African country on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. [1/2 definitions] |
| Roman Empire |
the territories ruled by ancient Rome, extending from Britain to North Africa and Asia Minor. [1/2 definitions] |
| Sahara |
a vast North African desert extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Nile. |
| Sahara Desert |
a vast arid region of North Africa extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Nile. |
| Sahel |
the vast semi-desert region that lies along the southern edge of the Sahara desert in North Africa (usu. prec. by "the"). |
| sirocco |
a hot, dry, dusty wind that blows steadily from North Africa to parts of Europe. [1/2 definitions] |
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