n. (Med. Chem.) A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960, Syn. Republic of Senegal
[howaitofin . hanma-heddo ; howaitofinhanma-heddo] (n) whitefin hammerhead (Sphyrna couardi, species of hammerhead shark found in the West African tropics of the eastern Atlantic from Senegal to Congo)