Melanochroi

British  

/ ˌmɛləˈnɒkrəʊˌaɪ, ˌmɛləˈnɒkrɔɪd /

plural noun

1. a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion

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Other Word Forms

• Melanochroid adjective

Etymology

Origin of Melanochroi

C19: New Latin (coined by T. H. Huxley), from Greek, from melas dark + ōchros pale

Example Sentences

The latter race includes the fair-haired people of northern Europe, and extends over nearly the same area as the Melanochroi, with which race it is greatly intermixed.

From Project Gutenberg

They may thence be called the MELANOCHROI.

From Project Gutenberg

As at the present time, so at the dawn of history, the Melanochroi fringed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; the Xanthochroi occupied most of Central and Eastern Europe, and much of Western and Central Asia; while Mongolians held the extreme east of the Old World.

From Project Gutenberg

The Xanthochroi and the Melanochroi of Britain are, speaking broadly, distributed, at present, as they were in the time of Tacitus; and their representatives on the continent of Europe have the same general distribution as at the earliest period of which we have any record.

From Project Gutenberg

The Melanochroi, on the other hand, may be represented as a broad band stretching from Ireland to Hindostan; while the Xanthochroic area lies between the two, thins out, so to speak, at either end, and mingles, at its margins, with both its neighbours.

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