ulotrichous

[ yoo-lo-tri-kuhs ]

adjective

1. belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.

ulotrichous

/ juːˈlɒtrɪkəs /

adjective

1. having woolly or curly hair

Derived Forms

• uˈlotrichy, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ulotrichous¹

First recorded in 1855–60; from New Latin Ulotrich(i) (plural), formerly a name for a division of humankind (from Greek oulótrichos (singular) “curly-haired,” equivalent to oûlo(s) “thick, fleecy” + -trichos “-haired” (derivative of thríx “hair”) + -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of ulotrichous¹

C19: from New Latin Ulotrichī (classification applied to humans having this type of hair), from Greek oulothrix , from oulos curly + thrix hair

Example Sentences

Ulotrichous, ū-lot′ri-kus, adj. having crisp woolly hair.—adj. and n.

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Subsequently when the land sank a remnant of the old ulotrichous population "was thus left stranded in Tasmania, where Homo tasmanianus survived until he came in contact with Europeans and was exterminated."

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The important point to be noted is that this early population was ulotrichous, cf. p.

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The autochthones of Melanesia were a dark-skinned and ulotrichous people, who had neither a fear of the ghosts of their dead nor a manes cult, but had a cult of local spirits.

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The two main sections of the Ulotrichous division of mankind, now separated by the intervening waters of the Indian Ocean, are fundamentally one.

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