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Definition of Nigra

1. Noun. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person. "Only a Black can call another Black a nigga"

Definition of Nigra

1. Noun. (US South) (alternative form of Negro) ¹

2. Noun. (offensive ethnic slur) A negro person ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Nigra

1. In neuroanatomy, the substantia nigra. Origin: L. Fr. Niger, black (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nigra

Literary usage of Nigra

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

1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... nigra BONAPARTE, Ann. Lye. NY, ii, 1828, 352.—NUTTALL, Man. Orn. US and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 264.—AUDUBON, Birds Am., fol., iv, 1838, pi. 323. ..."

2. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"Close to the substantia nigra, the bundles of white fibres are smaller ... 131), and the substantia nigra and reticular formation of the bulb and pons. ..."

3. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"They possibly arise from the cells of the substantia nigra. Above, they pass through the ... The substantia nigra or locus niger is, as already mentioned, ..."

4. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1890)
"... nigra, OR SCISSOR-BEAE. where there is a colony of tame Indians from the province of Missiones. We sailed rapidly down the current, but before sunset, ..."

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