单词 | africanoid |
释义 | Africanoidadj. Now chiefly historical. Designating a division of humankind represented by the indigenous peoples of Africa; of or relating to this group; resembling (and thus supposedly derived from) such peoples. Cf. Negroid adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] blackOE Morian1504 African1548 Negro1593 black Morian1631 neger1657 Ethiopian1684 nigger1689 Hubshee1698 Kaffir1731 Nigritian1757 Ethiopic1778 dingy1785 blackamoor1813 nigger-looking1837 darkie1840 Negroid1844 Negroloid1844 dinge1848 Melanian1861 negroish1861 Negroidal1878 Africanoid1885 chocolate?1886 melanodermic1924 nigra1938 tan1950 1885 Athenæum 12 Dec. 771/3 An Africanoid type, distinguished by prognathism, and perhaps derived from the widely diffused Ibero-Berber race, also turns up pretty frequently in Ireland, Dorset and Devon, and Wales. 1899 W. Z. Ripley Races of Europe 397 A long-headed member of the Africanoid races. 1921 19th Cent. & After May 884 The character-making quality did not come from Asianoid or Africanoid races, it was supplied by the Teuton. 1968 G. W. Stocking Race, Culture, & Evol. iii. 63 The Teutonic blonds had become a stable variant of the Africanoid Mediterranean European prototype. 2003 P. Brantlinger Dark Vanishings v. 110 Many Victorian ethnologists such as John Beddoe, with his ‘index of [Irish] nigrescence’, gave quasi-scientific status to this view of the Irish as a separate, apelike, or ‘Africanoid’ race. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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