Word Meanings - NEGROID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Characteristic of the negro. 2. Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.

Related words: (words related to NEGROID)

• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• NEGRO
  A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African
• NEGROLOID
  See NEGROID
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• NEGROHEAD
  An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up into round masses.
• CHARACTERISTICALLY
  In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• CHARACTERISTICAL
  Characteristic.
• NEGROID
  1. Characteristic of the negro. 2. Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• XANTHOSE
  An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
• FELDSPATHIC; FELDSPATHOSE
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.
• PYOXANTHOSE
  A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.
• BOOTHOSE
  1. Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak. 2. Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.