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1. † ballards, n. View full entry 1623
...= balafon...
2. drill, n.3 View full entry 1644
...A West African species of baboon, Mandrillusleucophœus. Also attrib., as drill baboon, drill monkey....
3. eddoes, n. View full entry 1685
...‘The tuberous stems of various araceous plants, as Colocasia esculenta..Caladium bicolor, etc.’ (Treasury Bot.). eddy-root...
4. greegree, n. View full entry 1698
...An African charm, amulet, or fetish....
5. harmattan, n. View full entry 1671
...A dry parching land-wind, which blows during December, January, and February, on the coast of Upper Guinea in Africa; it obscures the air with a red dust-fog....
6. Mandingo, n. and adj. View full entry 1623
...A member of a distinctive ethnic and cultural group of West Africa speaking closely related dialects of the largest language (now usually called Manding) of the Mande subfamily....
7. † Mokisso, n. View full entry 1634
...In central Africa, esp. in the former kingdom of Loango (now largely in south-western Congo): an idol....
8. Namaqua, n. and adj. View full entry 1670
...= Nama1....
9. okra, n. View full entry 1679
...A tall plant of the mallow family, Abelmoschus (or Hibiscus) esculentus, native to Africa and widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions; the fruit of this...
10. pindar, n. View full entry 1684
...The peanut or groundnut of the plant Arachis hypogaea (also pindar nut, pindar pea); (also) the plant itself....
11. pito, n. View full entry 1670
...A West African beer made from fermented maize or rice; maize beer....
12. pombe, n. View full entry 1625
...In Central and East Africa: a fermented alcoholic drink made from many kinds of grain and some fruits; beer (made locally rather than bottled)....
13. pongo, n.1 View full entry 1625
...A large anthropoid African ape, esp. a gorilla. Now hist....
14. † wake, n.3 View full entry 1623
...A North African bird....
15. zebra, n. View full entry 1600
...A South African equine quadruped (Equus or Hippotigris zebra), of a whitish ground-colour striped all over with regular bars of black; inhabiting mountainous regions, and noted for its...
