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Melanian, a.1 and n.1 Anthropology.|mɪˈleɪnɪən| [ad. F. mélanien (Bory de Saint-Vincent). f. Gr. µελαν-, µέλας black: see -ian.] Originally = negrito a. and n.; later, used as = Negroid.
1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon i. vi. 36. 1868 Owen Anat. Vert. III. 145 We know not the size of brain in the Melanian inventor of the ‘throwing-stick’. 1885W. H. Flower in Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. XIV. 381 To begin with the Ethiopian, Negroid or Melanian, or ‘black’ type. |