Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to four races.
Marjorie G. Lemlow: […] Because of housing patterns San Francisco did have some schools predominantly of one of this quadriracial components—Chinese speaking, Chinese, black, and other white.
1972, School Busing: Hearings Before Subcommitte No. 5 of the Committee on the Judiciary. House of Representatives. Ninety-Second Congress. Second Session on proposed amendments to the constitution and legislation relating to transportation and assignment of public school pupils. Part 3 […] Serial No. 32, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 14032 more examples
Frequently plant breeders cross hybrids with a species different from either of the parents, in this way obtaining trispecific hybrids. Many grape hybrids are of this nature. By crossing two hybrids having different parentage, quadrispecific or quadriracial hybrids are obtained. Wichura even obtained hybrid willows combining no less than six species.
1896, Walter T. Swingle, Herbert Webber, The Principal Diseases of Citrus Fruits in Florida, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 399If future racial self-identification patterns will also resemble today’s ethnic ones, the racial equivalent of today’s voluntary white ethnicity and its associated lack of ethnic loyalty may mean that many future, triracial, quadriracial, and other multiracial people may eventually know little, and care even less, about the various racial mixtures they have inherited.
2019, Herbert J. Gans, “The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-first-century United States”, in David Grusky, editor, Social Stratification, Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, Second Edition, New York: Routledge, pages 647 from 642–650
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Translations
Finnish nelirotuinen
- nelirotuinenOf or relating to four races.
German vierrassig
- vierrassigOf or relating to four races.
Russian четырёхра́совый
- четырёхра́совый (četyrjoxrásovyj)Of or relating to four races.
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