Melanochroi

/ ˌmɛləˈnɒkrəʊˌaɪ; ˌmɛləˈnɒkrɔɪd /

plural noun

1. a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion

Derived Forms

• Melanochroid, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Melanochroi¹

C19: New Latin (coined by T. H. Huxley), from Greek, from melas dark + ōchros pale

Example Sentences

The latter race includes the fair-haired people of northern Europe, and extends over nearly the same area as the Melanochroi, with which race it is greatly intermixed.

From Project Gutenberg

The Melanochroi are not considered by Huxley to be one of the primitive modifications of mankind, but rather to be the result of the admixture of the Xanthochroi with the Australoid type, next to be mentioned.

From Project Gutenberg

Though the languages of these races are very different they cannot be regarded as physically distinct, and they are both without doubt branches of the Melanochroi, modified by admixture with the neighbouring races, the Mongols, the Australoids and the Xanthochroi.

From Project Gutenberg

Ethnologically, the Irish people were originally, like the people of Britain, a mixture of Melanochroi and Xanthochroi.

From Project Gutenberg

V. The Celtic and the Teutonic dialects are members of the same great Aryan family of languages; but there is evidence to show that a non-Aryan language was at one time spoken over a large extent of the area occupied by Melanochroi in Europe.

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