单词 | melanous |
释义 | melanous, a. Anthropology.|ˈmɛlənəs| [f. Gr. µελαν-, µέλας black + -ous.] With reference to hair and complexion: Blackish, dark; spec. in Huxley's use, belonging to the variety of mankind called by him melanoi.
1836Prichard Res. Phys. Hist. Man (ed. 3) I. 227 The Greeks were probably, in Homer's time as now, in general of a melanous variety. 1843― Nat. Hist. Man (1845) 78 As we know of no expressions in English precisely correspondent with these names, blonde and brunette, I have adopted those of xanthous and melanous as distinguishing terms. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 315 The skin, like the hair, is of the melanous order. 1865Huxley Crit. & Addr. vii. (1873) 153 The ‘melanous’, with black hair and dark-brown or blackish skins. |

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