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negroid

adj

Etymology

From negro + -oid.

  1. derived from *negʷ-✻ — “bare; night”
  2. derived from niger — “shiny black”
  3. borrowed from negro — “black”
  4. suffixed as negroid — “negro + oid”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to…

    Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.

  2. A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.

    • "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"

  3. Alternative letter-case form of negroid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for negroid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA