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单词 africanoid
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Africanoidadj.

Brit. /ˈafrᵻkənɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈæfrəkəˌnɔɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: African adj., -oid suffix.
Etymology: < African adj. + -oid suffix. Compare earlier Negroid adj.
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.
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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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