a river in northwestern Africa that rises on the northeastern border of Sierra Leone and flows northeast and then southeast in a great arc for 2,550 miles (4,100 km) to Mali and through western Niger and Nigeria before turning south into the Gulf of Guinea
denoting or belonging to a large phylum of languages in Africa, named after the rivers Niger and Congo. It comprises most of the languages spoken by the indigenous peoples of Africa south of the Sahara and includes the Bantu, Mande, Gur, and Kwa families
a black triggerfish that occurs worldwide in tropical seas
a small white-flowered winter-blooming hellebore, grown as a houseplant
a coarse and poisonous Eurasian plant of the nightshade family, with sticky hairy leaves and an unpleasant smell
a large African antelope with long curved horns, the male of which has a black coat and the female a russet coat, both having a white belly