- Negroid race
- nouna dark-skinned race• Syn: ↑Black race, ↑Negro race• Hypernyms: ↑race• Member Meronyms: ↑Black, ↑Black person, ↑blackamoor, ↑Negro, ↑Negroid
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Negroid race
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