Crossword clues for negroid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Negroid \Ne"groid\, a. [Negro + -oid.]
Characteristic of the negro.
Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
Negroid \Ne"groid\, n. [Negro + -oid.] A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, a hybrid, from Negro and Greek suffix -oeides "like, resembling" (see -oid). As a noun from 1859.
Wiktionary
a. (context ethnology English) 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. alt. (context ethnology English) 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. n. (context ethnology English) A person with negroid characteristics, particularly coiled hair and very high melanin content giving them dark brown skin
WordNet
adj. characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race; "negroid features"
n. a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro]
Wikipedia
Negroid (also known as Congoid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon. The term has been used by forensic and physical anthropologists to refer to individuals and populations that share certain morphological and skeletal traits that are frequent among most populations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Negroid was first introduced in the 19th century in early concepts of race and anthropometry. It has traditionally been used to denote one of the three purported major races of humankind (Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid). Many social scientists have argued that such analyses are rooted in sociopolitical and historical processes rather than in empirical observation. However, Negroid as a biological classification remains in use in forensic anthropology.
Usage examples of "negroid".
Besides these primitive races there are the dark-skinned negroids of Bantu stock, commonly known in their tribal groups as Kaffirs, Zulu, Bechuana and Damara, which are again subdivided into many lesser groups.
The shelves to the right of my desk are laden with busts of all the typical ethnic types found in Africa, Hamites, Arabs, pygmies, the negroids, Boskops, bushmen, Griqua, Hottentot and all the others.
All three shared the low, wide forehead, intelligent eyes, finely chiselled lips and thin, almost aquiline nose: they had no negroid characteristics whatsoever, were almost certainly of unmixed Arabian descent.
Don’t segregationists always quote Arnold Toynbee to the effect that of history’s twenty-one great civilizations, Negroid Africa produced not one?
Here and there, Abrahams could identify a juror he must soon confront: the smiling visage of the Majority Leader, Senator John Selander, the testy countenance, decorated with its pince-nez, of Senator Bruce Hankins, the vaguely Negroid features of Senator Roy Sampson, the perpetually snarling face of Senator Kirk Bollinger, the unexpected feminine profile of Senator Maxine Schultz, the leonine head of Senator Hoyt Watson.
Many Seminoles had somewhat Negroid characteristics, due to the fact that Negro slaves had fled into the Everglades for hundreds of years, and had even at times tried to set up an independent nation in the swamp.