Etymology

Melanesid

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Today it means: A proposed subrace of the Australoid race. Full definition →

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The story

Melanesia + -id. Coined by Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt in 1934.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.