NORTH AFRICAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North African mean? 

• NORTH AFRICAN (adjective)
  The adjective NORTH AFRICAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to northern Africa

  Familiarity information: NORTH AFRICAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH AFRICAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to northern Africa

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

North Africa (an area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea)

 Context examples 

Denotes a person of European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestral origins whose family settled in a North American country such as the United States of America or Canada.

(North American, NCI Thesaurus)

The system could provide cheap and low-tech water filtration to rural, arid areas, such as the North African and Asian deserts, where water preservation is crucial for farmers and expensive, industrial water purification is not available.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)