melanochroous (melanokrous)

[ There seems good ground for the belief that,... among Europe ans, the mel an ochrous people are le obnoxious to its [yellow fever's] ravages than the xanthochrous. Huxley , Critiques and Addre es, p. 157. melano comous (mel-a-nok'ō-mus), a. [ μέλας ( μελαν- ), black, + κόμη , hair: see coma2 .] Black-haired; hav ing black hair.