Definition of Beninese

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people. "Benin bronzes"

Partainyms: Benin

2. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Benin.
Group relationships: Benin, Dahomey, Republic Of Benin
Generic synonyms: African

Definition of Beninese

1. Noun. A person from Benin or of Beninese descent. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Benin, the Beninese people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beninese

Bengal lights
Bengal rose
Bengal tiger
Bengal tigers
Bengalee
Bengalees
Bengali
Bengalis
Benghal bean
Benghazi
Benghazi Handicap
Bengkulu
Benguela Current
Benin
Benin franc
Beninese (current term)
Benioff zone
Benioff zones
Benito
Benito Mussolini
Benjamin
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin David Goodman
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Bridge
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.
Benjamin Harris
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Literary usage of Beninese

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cover Crops in West Africa: Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture by Daniel Buckles (1998)
"When Ghanaian researchers from Kumasi were presenting the Beninese Mucuna seeds to farmers in Ghana, they were told that the same bean (called adua apia in ..."

2. Water Hyacinth in Africa and the Middle East: A Survey of Problems and Solutions by Luis A. Navarro, George Phiri, George Yobe Kanyama-Phiri (2000)
"The Beninese government, GTZ, and HTA (also partly supported by GTZ) provide most of the support for control of water hyacinth. Interviews in Benin by the ..."

3. African Economic Outlook by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development : Development Centre, African Development Bank Group, African Development Bank (2006)
"... of banned products and the threats of complete border closures at the beginning of 2004 had a negative effect on Nigerian demand for Beninese products. ..."

4. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 1995 by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"The major consequence of this anomaly is that little incentive is provided for Beninese prosecutors to pursue narcotics cases. ..."

5. Patterns of Global Terrorism, (1995) by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Togolese oppositionists may have been responsible for a grenade attack on a French-owned restaurant that wounded five French and two Beninese citizens. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"She was the twenty-third л of a dyer named Jacomo Beninese». Her ••• home in the vicinity of a Dominican топь*1: made a deep impression on the sensitive в ..."

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