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Mongoloid adj.

Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols.

Of, related to, or affected with, Down syndrome; not a technical term.

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Etymology of 'Mongoloid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mongoloid" Quotes from Famous Books

... has proposed a fourfold classification: 1. The Australoid, represented by the Australians and the indigenous tribes of Southern India. 2. The Negroid. 3. The Mongoloid. 4. The Xanthochroi, or fair whites, among whom are comprised most of the inhabitants of Northern Europe. To these are added a fifth variety, the Melanochroi, to which belong a part of the Celts, the ...

— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

... Bali are a fine, strong, dignified, rather haughty race, fit mates in physique for their women. They are considerably taller than any other Malays whom I saw and possess less Mongoloid and Negroid characteristics, these being subdued by some strong primeval alien strain which is undoubtedly Caucasian. Though now peaceable enough, every Balinese man carries in his sash a kris—the long, curly-bladed knife which is the national weapon of Malaysia. Most of the krises that I examined ...

— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

Words linked to "Mongoloid" : Asian, Mongol, mongolism, Mongolia, Asiatic, retard, anthropology