African-american
African-american adjective - Pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry.
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Dark-skinned and african-american are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dark-skinned" instead an adjective phrase "African-american".
Dark-skinned
Dark-skinned adjective - Having skin rich in melanin pigments.
African-american and dark-skinned are semantically related. You can use "African-american" instead an adjective phrase "Dark-skinned".
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It's also worth noting that he's portrayed as dark-skinned, despite otherwise-alien features — i.e., "played by an African-American".
Source: Proud Warrior Race Guy - Storm, who started out as a dark-skinned version of a "She"-like Jungle Princess, was born in Harlem of an African-American father and a Kenyan mother, and grew up in the streets of Cairo (the one in Egypt) after being orphaned before migrating south to her mother's native country.
Source: Multinational Team / Comic Books - But Not Too White: Jenna sees Miss Foster, the dark-skinned African-American assistant principal at Forest Green School and has an inner monologue complaining about her own pale skin.God, I'm so white I could puke!
Source: Literature / When Dad Killed Mom
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Dark-skinned and African-american. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/african-american/dark-skinned
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