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Melanochroic   Listen
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Melanochroic  adj.  Having a dark complexion; of or pertaining to the Melanochroi.






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... secondary Celtic in another. In the British islands, only outlying pools of the secondary linguistic wave remain in Wales, the Highlands, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. If this hypothesis is a sound one, it follows that the name of Celtic is not properly applicable to the Melanochroic or dark stock of Europe. They are merely, so to speak, secondary Celts. The primary and aboriginal Celtic-speaking people are Xanthochroi—the typical Gauls of the ancient writers, and the close allies by blood, customs, and language, ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley



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