单词 | armenoid |
释义 | Armenoidadj.n. Physical Anthropology. Now chiefly historical. Of, relating to, or designating a division of the Caucasoid race associated with the northern part of Western Asia, including Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the eastern Mediterranean, characterized by a brachycephalic skull shape, a prominent nose, and dark skin and hair. Also as n.: a person of this physical type. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [noun] Pontic1683 yellow man1788 yellowskin1847 Euro-African1854 Mediterranean1876 Armenoid1894 Alpine1899 Nordic1900 Eurasiatic1901 blond beast1907 Caspian1923 Veddoid1948 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [adjective] Ligurian1632 Mediterranean1876 Eurafrican1890 Alpine1894 Armenoid1894 Nordic1898 Eurasiatic1901 Veddoid1956 1894 Science 12 Jan. 21/2 They are the descendants of an ‘Armenoid’ population that had only accepted Semitic writing and language in about 1000 B. C. 1899 A. H. Keane Man Past & Pres. xii. 457 Armenoid, akin to von Luschan's pre-Semitic of Asia Minor. 1911 F. von Luschan in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 61 244 When I first upheld in 1892, in my paper on the anthropological position of the Jews, the homogeneous character of these groups, I called them ‘Armenoids’. 1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans iv. 122 The so-called ‘Jewish’ nose is really Armenoid. 2004 Iran & Caucasus 8 183 The Armenoid type is characterised by a slightly wavy hair, a developed tertiary integument, with abundant facial hair, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1894 |
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