A herb, Guizotia abyssinica, from Ethiopia, grown for its seed and edible oil.(noun)
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Use "niger" in a sentence
"But I can say this, that it may have came from the Latin word ''niger'' for the color black."
"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"
"Do you think you'll get in trouble for having the word niger on your web site?"