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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The offspring of a person of mixed blood; especially, a person of mixed Spanish and American Indian parentage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Spanish America The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
  • noun wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, mixed, mestizo, from Old Spanish, mixed, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.]

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