negroid, negro6id

& s. [Eng. negro, and A. As adjective: Resembling negroes; having the characteristics of negroes; of the negro type. "The Wakwavi are the same in race and language with the negroid Ma i."- London Daily Telegraph. B. As substantive: Anthrop.: One belonging to the Negroid race; a negro. Negroid-race, s . Anthrop.: A term used in the same sense as the "Negro of other anthropologists. The Negroid type is primarily represented by the Negro of Africa between the Sahara and the Cape district, including Madagascar. Two important families are cla ed in this system. (1) The Bushmen of South Africa, diminutive in stature, and of yellowish-brown complexion. (The Hottentot is supposed to be the result of cro ing between the Bushman and the ordinary Negroid.) (2) Negritoes of the And a man Islands, the Peninsula of Malacca, the Philippine, and other islands to New California and Tasmania. They are mostly dolichocephalic, with dark skins and woolly hair. In various districts they tend toward other types, and show traces of mixture. (Journ. Ethnol. Soc., 1870, 405, 406.) Nê-grô-lănd, s. [Eng. negro , and land .] Geog. & Anthrop .: That part of the continent of Africa south of Sahara. "Architecture has no existence, nor are there any monumental ruins or stone structures of any sort in the whole of Negro land , except those erected in Soudan under Hametic and Semitic influences."-Prof. A. H. Keane, in Encyc, Brit . (ed. 9th), xvii. 318.