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Melanesoid, a.|mɛləˈniːzɔɪd| [f. Melanes(ia (see Melanesian a. and n.) + -oid.] Similar in racial type to the Melanesian; resembling a Melanesian.
1932Man Dec. 283 The term Melanesoid was used to indicate the offspring of tribes from Southern China (Yunnan) and Northern Indo-China (Tonkin). 1939F. Weidenreich in Peking Nat. Hist. Bull. XIII. 170 The morphological analysis of the three skulls..led to the result that they typify three different racial elements, best to be classified as primitive Mongoloid, Melanesoid and Eskimoid types. 1943― Skull of Sinanthropus Pekinensis 251 Skull of a female... The female, B, shows the greatest similarity to the Melanesians of today. For this reason I have designated the type as ‘Melanesoid’. 1946[see Eskimoid a.]. |