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Definition of Negroids
1. negroid [n] - See also: negroid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Negroids
Literary usage of Negroids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Strange Neighbors by Frederick Starr (1901)
"negroids. THE negroids of Southern and Eastern Africa resemble the negroes. ...
The negroids comprise many different tribes, but all speak related languages ..."
2. Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress by Francis Reginald Wingate (1891)
"... the Baggara, the fourth class—The cattle-owning negroes or negroids, the fifth
class — The slave trade and its suppression by General Gordon—The reasons ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It is most convenient, however, to refer to the dark-skinned inhabitants of this
zone by the collective term of negroids, and to reserve the word ..."
4. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"... •distinguish the negroids from the non-negroids are relative terras ; these
two races were found to have the same cephalic index, but yet were regarded ..."
5. The Negro in the New World by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1910)
"That of the negro is 32 to 34 per thousand, and of the half-castes (mainly
negroids), 32 to 28 per thousand. 291. A HYBRID BETWEEN NEGRO AND EAST INDIAN ..."
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