(n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(2) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(3) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(4) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
(5) G6PD Tacoma-like may be common in some African tribes.
(6) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(7) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
(8) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) Recommendations have been made regarding the development of this specialisation in the South African health care setting.
(11) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(12) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(13) Values obtained by combining Mini-ESR with indices of the African Neonates were 100%, 85% and 94%.
(14) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.
(15) Using what is known about AIDS and what is know about the population structure in African countries, it is possible to model the impact of AIDS on a typical developing country with a population of 10 million.
(16) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(17) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(18) The case of a Black African patient with an annular subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm of unknown origin is described, and the pathological findings in this condition together with a review of the literature is presented.
(19) In African trypanosomes, calmodulin is encoded by a small family of tandemly repeated genes consisting of three to four units.
(20) (S)-1-[3-Hydroxy-2-(phosphonylmethoxy)propyl]cytosine (S-HPMPC) was able to prevent simian varicella infection in African green monkeys inoculated intratracheally with virus.
Elephant
Definition:
(n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
(n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(2) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(3) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
(4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(5) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(6) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(7) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
(8) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(9) We’ve sent one of our writers to Kenya to meet the elephants, and some of the people who seek to look after them, just as news breaks that elephant numbers are dramatically down.
(10) It’s home to a quarter of a million people, about 150 elephants and a host of other wild animals ranging from bears and tigers to flycatchers and martens.
(11) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(12) On the other hand the government and the police have got a duty to ensure that people in the Department of Defence are not breaching national security by giving stuff to you.” The Greens senator Scott Ludlam, who provided his own circumvention tips during the Senate debate on Tuesday, said Turnbull’s explanation indicated data retention could be a “$300m white elephant”.
(13) Through the year, a herd of elephants may move over a very large area in search of food and water – sometimes more than 1,000 square kilometres.
(14) At 5pm each night, local TV stations broadcast the locations of all elephants on the plateau.
(15) Sudanese poachers were responsible for the recent mass slaughter of 26 elephants at world heritage Dzanga-Ndoki national park in the CAR.
(16) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(17) … the party wants to run a highly disciplined election campaign – there can be no place for a rogue elephant."
(18) In January, poachers shot down a helicopter in Tanzania and killed its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers while, in October last year, 14 elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe .
(19) It would be kind of a big elephant to have missed."
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.