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- adjective ethnology having
negro features racially. Pertaining to the racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world. - noun ethnology A person with negroid characteristics.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He stands in a measure intermediate between the nomad Pygmies of the forest and the desert, and the mixed races who may be called negroid but cannot strictly be called negro.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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Early photographs do show him looking somewhat negroid, with noticeably wiry hair.
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Legion of Horror@205 said, those cities all have significantly high negroid (sic) populations too.
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Legion of Honor says: drhunt1, those cities all have significantly high negroid populations too.
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He took to straightening his hair, getting rid of any semblance to the negroid curl.
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* Technically*, of course, it's just a mispronunciation of 'negro', which itself came from negroid.
Planned Changes to the Dictionary Dungeekin 2009
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Shayne aka Cigna says: cch sharpton says: wildweasel, I see the commonality that you are referring to: middle eastern, negroid features.
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The winter tanning beds are overtaken - the blondes turn negroid - the jocks, still freckled, turn red now.
Lawn 2010
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Take a Caucasoid population, move it into an equatorial region, give it a little time, and natural selection will restore many of the characteristics that we consider negroid.
The Future of this Country? Please No! - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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And in a society where one drop of "black" blood would be sufficient to classify you as "negroid," that distinction, between "race" and "ethnicity" has been the linchpin of how power has been distributed in this country.
Raymond Leon Roker: My View of The Atlantic's "The End of White America?" 2009
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