negroid

3 definitions found

negroid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Negroid \Ne"groid\, a. [Negro + -oid.]
     1. Characteristic of the negro.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those
        who resemble the negro.
        [1913 Webster]

  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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

negroid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  negroid
      adj 1: characteristic of people traditionally classified as the
             Negro race; "negroid features"
      n 1: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
           ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person,
           blackamoor, Negro, Negroid]