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MIXED-BLOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mixed-blood" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mixed-blood"):
mulatto (an offspring of a black and a white parent)
quadroon (an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black)
octoroon (an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black)
half-caste (an offensive term for the offspring of parents of different racial groups or cultures)
Metis (a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry)
