Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the negro race; specifically, of or pertaining to the Oceanic negroes.
- Of or pertaining to the negro race; specifically, of or pertaining to the Oceanic negroes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Ethnol.) Pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, negroes, or of the Negritos, Papuans, and the Melanesian races; negritic.
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Commonly they are known as Nubians, but this name is more properly applied to their neighbors on the banks of the Nile, who are of Negro extraction and who speak a language of nigritic structure.
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