a river in NW Africa, which rises on the NE border of Sierra Leone and flows in a great arc for 4,100 km (2,550 miles) north-east to Mali, then south-east through western Niger and Nigeria, before turning southwards 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 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