Lexic.us

Definition of Negroid race

1. Noun. A dark-skinned race.

Medical Definition of Negroid race

1. A major racial group distinguished by classification according to physical features. This group is found largely as african negroes in the western, central, and southern parts of africa; as melanesians and papuans in new guinea; as negrillos in the african congo; and as negritos in the african congo, malay peninsula, new guinea, and andaman islands. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Negroid Race

Literary usage of Negroid race

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

1. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"The Indian Peninsula and Malay Archipelago, once peopled by a primitive Negroid race, but now harboring only remnants of them in the Deccan, Malacca, ..."

2. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"... once peopled by a Eve negroid race, but now harboring only remnants of i the Deccan, Malacca, the Philippines and elsewhere, ,. the distance to the ..."

3. Africa and the American Negro by John Wesley Edward Bowen, Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa (1896)
"The white people, neither North nor South, will have social contact as a mass between themselves and any portion of the negroid race. ..."

4. Africa and the American Negro: Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on by John Wesley Edward Bowen (1896)
"The colored man who will stand up and in one breath say, that the negroid race does not want social equality and in the next predict a great future in the ..."

5. The Negro in the Cities of the North by Survey (1905)
"We find also that in regions inhabited by the Pacific race and far remote from the habitats of the negroid race, individuals may be found which show a ..."

6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1876)
"It therefore seems more than probable that the difference in colour now found to exist among the various tribes of the negroid race inhabiting the island of ..."

7. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"The CHAIRMAN said they were all indebted to Mr. Portman for bringing before them the most recent information about the negroid race. It did not appear that ..."

8. Explorations in Africa by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley (1872)
"This remarkable distribution is perhaps most easily explicable on the hypothesis that since the negroid race came into existence there must have been an ..."

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