Niger

Word NIGER
Character 5
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What do we mean by niger?

A plant (Guizotia abyssinica) of the composite family native to northeast Africa, having yellow flower heads and grown for its oil-rich seeds, often used for birdseed. noun

A herb, Guizotia abyssinica, from Ethiopia, grown for its seed and edible oil. noun

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The word "niger" in example sentences

But I can say this, that it may have came from the Latin word ''niger'' for the color black. ❋ Nathaniel Livingston (2006)

In the book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" by Randall Kennedy, the Harvard Law professor writes that the word is derived from the Latin word "niger" and the Spanish word ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Do you think you'll get in trouble for having the word niger on your web site?" ❋ Unknown (2007)

Do you think you'll get in trouble for having the word niger on your web site? ❋ Unknown (2007)

REVEREND JESSE JACKSON: You used the word niger and then the lynching scene have you been here before? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Going from that to the excessive use of profanity, repretish use of the word niger, and idea about some body lynching from a tree, that's pretty pathologic, pretty sick. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In fact, Wikipedia suggests that it is 'a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, meaning "black"', but that's a technicality. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

Suppose, that two tribes used the same written characters, but attached different and opposite meanings to them, so that 'niger', for instance, was used by one tribe to convey the notion 'black', by the other, 'white'; -- could they, without absurdity, be said to have the same language? ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

Click to read. obama was informed that this little niger was enroute to US midflight and did nothing! ❋ Unknown (2010)

‘Josef Lemper’ – the Helleborus niger hybrid I posted about last month – is still in full flower. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The bully tactics usually used in these niger scams, reflect their own awful society of course. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)

I could not have worded her views on the niger-delta issue better. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The words bitch, scum, niger, hook nosed jew, parasite jew, gypoe, white bitch, are all just words, but they are all insanely offensive terms to use about people in converstation about people. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

Paki is more ike terms like Bitch, scum, and niger etc: not terms like jock or taff. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

‘Josef Lemper’ is a selection of Helleborus niger. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) has sticky serrated leaves; yellow, funnel-shaped flowers; and a stale scent. ❋ Maxine (2009)

River wildlife includes black caimans (Melanosuchus niger), yellow-spotted sideneck turtles (Podocnemis unifilis), American manatees (Trichechus inunguis), and river dolphins (Ina geoffroyensis and Sotalia fluviatilis). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Threatened reptiles are the terrestrial yellow-footed tortoise, Geochelone denticulata (VU), 10 freshwater turtles including P. sextuberculata (VU) and P. unifilis (VU), South American river turtle Podocnemis expansa and black caiman Melanosuchus niger (EN). ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are also is an isolated population of the Cape dassie Procavia capensis, also tree hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis; and bush pig Potamochoerus porcus, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus, bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, Maxwell's duiker Cephalophus maxwelli and black duiker C. niger, bay duiker C. dorsalis and forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For instance, niger seed attracts finches and small sparrows while black-oil sunflower seed draws in chickadees, cardinals and nuthatches. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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