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Africanized, ppl. a. Sense 1 formerly at Africanize v. in Dict.|ˈæfrɪkənaɪzd|
1. Made African in character or form.
1865Cincinnati Commercial 4 July 1/2 A Yankee voice with Africanized accent. 1905Tablet 21 Oct. 649/2 They have become thoroughly Africanised, speak only the Ethiopian language. 1958Economist 13 Dec. (African Suppl.) 7/2 The fate of Africa in the next decade, therefore, depends upon economic advance catching up with political advance in the ‘Africanised’ north and west. 1991P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Music 238 In 1975, a new Africanised variant on the Rio-style samba school was born in the form of the big percussion marching bands known as ‘Afro-blocos’.
2. Designating an unusually aggressive type of honeybee originally produced by crossing an African subspecies with a European one. Of a colony, population, etc.: containing such bees.
[1964Bee World XLV. 119 The ‘Africanization’ of our European strains of A. mellifera was astonishingly rapid.] 1970Amer. Bee Jrnl. CX. 460 ‘Selected’ Africanized bees produce large amounts of brood, resulting in rapid colony building. 1976Sci. Amer. Jan. 63/1 The African bees are unable to survive the cold season in temperate climates as other honeybees do by forming winter clusters, and the Africanized hybrids share this behavioral handicap. 1989Nature 18 May 182/1 These authors maintain that European bees have not contributed significantly to the feral, Africanized gene pool. 1992New Scientist 4 July 45/1 Once this breeding stock is tainted with even a few aggressive, unmanageable Africanised colonies, orders will dry up overnight. |