Negroid
Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) of, relating to, or characteristic of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
Older Use: Usually Offensive. a member of such peoples.
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How to use Negroid in a sentence
She may not have had a Negroid bundle in her bottom, but it was close enough.
Behind them Negroid peoples poured into Africa, apparently in successive waves.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerWe found a branch of the great Negroid race starting very early from this region and migrating westward past Arabia into Africa.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerNor was the Negroid stock confined to Africa, though Africa has always been its geographical core.
Influences of Geographic Environment | Ellen Churchill SempleIn some ways resembling the Negro dialects, it betrays non-Negroid influences in the use of suffixes.
This dynasty was overthrown by the Negroid Mabas, who established Wadai to the eastward about 1640.
The Negro | W.E.B. Du Bois
British Dictionary definitions for Negroid
/ (ˈniːɡrɔɪd) /
denoting, relating to, or belonging to a darker-compexioned supposed racial group of mankind. This group includes the indigenous peoples of Africa south of the Sahara, their descendants elsewhere, and some Melanesian peoples
a member of this racial group
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