negriticadj.

1870 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 160 147 The Maori and Greek forms may be looked on as links between complete brachycephalism and dolichocephalism of the negritic races and the west of Europe respectively.

1878 C. F. Keary Dawn of Hist. 220 The reader may consult an interesting paper by Professor Huxley..for some further views concerning the extension of the Negritic family.

1908 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 46 389 The term Negritic by some ethnologists has been made to include even the black Dravidian people of Southern India.

1926 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 529 The one class that had kept itself pure from negritic intermixture.

1950 Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biol. 15 260/1 Using the living Andamanese as a basis for reference, the negritic migrants may be characterized as of very short stature, dark skin color, woolly hair form, moderate round-headedness, low nasal relief, and a very short and narrow face.

1962 Current Anthropol. 3 492/2 (table) Anthropological Types of Races... Negritic Type.

1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 147 Meister Sendivogius achieved his inimitable work before Rudolph the Emperor by converting quicksilver to gold with the aid of negritic dust.