Definition of Eurafrican

1. Noun. A person of mixed European and African descent.

Generic synonyms: African, European

2. Adjective. Relating to or coming from Europe and Africa.
Partainyms: Africa, Europe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eurafrican

Euphorbia peplus
Euphorbia pilulifera
Euphorbia pulcherrima
Euphoria litchi
Euphractus
Euphrates
Euphrates River
Euphrosyne
Euproctis
Euproctis chrysorrhoea
Euproctis phaeorrhoea
Eurabia
Eurabian
Eurafrasia
Eurafrican (current term)
Euramerica
Eurasia
Eurasian
Eurasian Union
Eurasian badger
Eurasian badgers
Eurasian black vulture
Eurasian black vultures
Eurasian bullfinch
Eurasian bullfinches
Eurasian green toad
Eurasian hamster
Eurasian jay
Eurasian jays

Literary usage of Eurafrican

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... Eurafrican Continent— The Euramerican Continent—America accessible from Europe and from Asia—Theory of de Quatrefages on the migrations of primitive ..."

2. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"The Mediterranean race was first defined by Sergi, who also calls it Eurafrican. The term Alpine, proposed by Linnaeus, was revived by ..."

3. The Mediterranean Race: A Study of the Origin of European Peoples by Giuseppe Sergi (1901)
"The Eurafrican species thus falls into three races: the African, ... Thus the Mediterranean stock is a race or variety of the Eurafrican species, ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... adopting the adjective first proposed by the •writer of this notice, he assigns the term, * Eurafrican,' indicating that its branches are to be found in ..."

5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"The change comes due north of the Eurafrican meridional edge. The anomalies are at once removed if we assume that both ellipsoids are locally correct ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"The original derivation of this " Eurafrican" stock from the African Lake Land, however, remains no more than a suggestion. Prof. ..."

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