Negroid
pronunciation
How to pronounce Negroid in British English:
UK [ˈni:ɡrɔid]
How to pronounce Negroid in American English:
US [ˈniˌɡrɔɪd]
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- Adjective:
- characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race
Word Origin
- negroid (adj.)
- 1844, a hybrid, from Negro and Greek suffix -oeides "like, resembling" (see -oid). As a noun from 1859.
Example
- 1. Indian blood was plain in her features , overbalancing the negroid characteristics .
- 2. Things are not always negroid or white .
- 3. Atomic city adventures : the case of the negroid dragon .
- 4. People from north african countries have an arabic rather than a negroid appearance .
- 5. Because recent excavation in indus civilisation has revealed that all the skulls found there belong to mongoloid , negroid and austroloid people ?