单词 | miscegenation |
释义 | miscegenation —miscegenetic /mis'i jeuh net"ik, mi sej'euh-/, adj. /mi sej'euh nay"sheuhn, mis'i jeuh-/, n. 1. marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races, esp., in the U.S., between a black and a white person. 2. interbreeding between members of different races. 3. the mixing or a mixture of races by interbreeding. [irreg. < L misce(re) to mix + gen(us) race, stock, species + -ATION; allegedly coined by U.S. journalist David Goodman Croly (1829-89) in a pamphlet published anonymously in 1864] |
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