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Melanochroi - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Melanochroi pl (plural only). (anthropology, dated) A division of the human population, consisting of the darker-skinned among the white races.
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MELANOCHROI definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
Old-fashioned a postulated subdivision of humankind, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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Mediterranean race - Wikipedia
On the south and west this type comes into contact and mixes with the "Melanochroi," or "dark whites" … In these regions are found, more or less mixed with ...
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Melanochroi
‖ Melanochroi, n. pl. Anthropology. (mɛləˈnɒkrəʊaɪ) [mod.L.; formed by Huxley, who seems to have meant it as a transliteration of an assumed Gr. µελάνωχροι, f. µελαν-, µέλας black + ὠχρός pale. (On this view the correct mod.L. form would have been *melanōchrī; the irregularity occurs also in the oth...
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MELANOCHROI Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Melanochroi definition: a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion. See examples of MELANOCHROI used in ...
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Melanochroi, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun Melanochroi is in the 1860s. OED's earliest evidence for Melanochroi is from 1865, in the writing of Thomas Huxley, biologist ...
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Xanthomelanoi
‖ Xanthomelanoi, n. pl. Anthropology. (zænθəʊˈmɛlənɔɪ) [mod.L. (Huxley), transliteration (instead of the regular L. form *xanthomelanī) of an assumed Gr. *ξανθοµέλανοι, f. ξανθός yellow + µέλας, µελαν- black: cf. Melanoi and Xanthochroi. (On the analogy of the other terms, the word should have been ...
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MELANOCHROOUS Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MELANOCHROOUS is having a dark or swarthy skin.
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Melanochroi Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
Melanochroi definition: The darker Caucasoids living around the Mediterranean Sea.
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"MELANOCHROI": Humans characterized by dark pigmentation
▸ noun: (anthropology, dated) A division of the human population, consisting of the darker-skinned among the white races. Similar: Xanthomelanoi, blondism, ...
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melanochroi - definition and meaning - Wordnik
melanochroi: In anthropology, the dark-white peoples, a variety or class of mankind according to Huxley's classification.
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Australo-Melanesian
Huxley further classified the Melanochroi (Peoples of the Mediterranean race) as a mixture of the Xanthochroi (northern Europeans) and Australioids.
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Melanoi
‖ Melanoi, n. pl. Anthropology. [Intended as mod.L.; formed irregularly by transliteration of Gr. µελανοί, pl. of µελανός, var. of µέλας black.] Huxley's name for the black-haired and dark-complexioned division of his class Leiotrichi or smooth-haired peoples.1866 [see Melanochroi].
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Mediterranean race
According to Huxley,
By the late 19th century, Huxley's Xanthochroi group had been redefined as the "Nordic" race, whereas his Melanochroi became the As such, Huxley's Melanochroi eventually also comprised various other dark Caucasoid populations, including the Hamites (e.g.
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Xanthochroi
‖ Xanthochroi, n. pl. Anthropology. (zænˈθɒkrəʊaɪ, -ˈθəʊkrɔɪ) [mod.L. (Huxley), app. meant as a transliteration of an assumed Gr. *ξάνθωχροι, f. ξανθός yellow + ὠχρός pale (the regular L. form of which would be *xanthōchrī); by later writers and in Dicts. taken as xanthŏchroī (sing. -chrous), ad. Gr...
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