Definitions

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

  • adjective Of or being a human racial classification traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as dark skin and dark curly hair, and including the Aboriginal peoples of Australia along with various peoples of Southeast Asia, especially Melanesia and the Malay Archipelago. No longer in scientific use.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Australioid.

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

  • noun anthropology A member of the racial classification that includes Veddahs, Negritos, New Guineans, Melanesians, Micronesians and Australian aborigines.

Etymologies

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

[Austral(ian) + –oid.]

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Examples

  • There is such a thing as a Caucasian race, a Congoid (formerly know as Negroid) race, a Capoid race, a Mongoloid Race and Australoid race.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - BSG at the UN 2009

  • There is such a thing as a Caucasian race, a Congoid (formerly know as Negroid) race, a Capoid race, a Mongoloid Race and Australoid race.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - BSG at the UN 2009

  • There are elements of three major racial groups: the Caucasoid, the Australoid, and the Mongoloid.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • All tribal people do not belong to the Australoid groups and in some parts of Eastern India, we find a mixed race of these groups which we may call as Sankara or mixed group Sankara in Sanskrit means mixed varieties.

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • There are elements of three major racial groups: the Caucasoid, the Australoid, and the Mongoloid.

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • All tribal people do not belong to the Australoid groups and in some parts of Eastern India, we find a mixed race of these groups which we may call as Sankara or mixed group Sankara in Sanskrit means mixed varieties.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • I remember seeing a display on the Four Races in a museum when I was little: Caucasoid, Negroid, Australoid, and Mongoloid.

    "Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Could it have been because the South American sites couldn't be easily identified as European-ish but might more likely have been Asiatic, Polynesian, or Australoid?

    $6.50 2005

  • The traditional terms for these populations—Caucasoid or Caucasian, Mongoloid, Negroid, and in some systems Australoid—are now controversial in both technical and nontechnical usage, and in some cases they may well be considered offensive.

    Money and the ethnic vote: Part 1 of 3 Ed Hollett 2007

  • We are curious about the Australoid aborigines, the surviving stone-age men, who continue their nomadic existence in the interior of the Continent.

    Australia Revisited 1956

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