Definitions for Australoid

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Australoid Aus·tra·loid

Spelling: [aw-struh-loid]

IPA: /ˈɔ strəˌlɔɪd/

Australoid is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 810 anagrams from letters in Australoid (aadilorstu).

Definitions for Australoid

noun

1. Anthropology. a descriptive category including principally the Australian Aborigines and sometimes including Papuans, Melanesians, various small-statured peoples, as Negritos, of the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and Andaman Islands, and some of the tribes of central and southern India.

adjective

1. pertaining to or having the characteristics of the Australoids.

Origin of Australoid

1860-65; variant of Australioid. See Australia, -oid

Examples for Australoid

The Australoid seems on the whole not equipped for the effort.

It is also probable that the Australoid family extends into south Arabia and Egypt.

The primitive Negro stock was "mulatto" in the sense of being not widely differentiated from the dark, original Australoid stock.

The Negritos appear to be derived from a mixture of the true Negro with the Australoid type.

This prevelence of body and face hair seems to conform to parts of Melanesia where it may be regarded as an Australoid element.