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Mongoloid adj.

Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols.

Of, related to, or affected with, Down syndrome; not a technical term.

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Etymology of 'Mongoloid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mongoloid" Quotes from Famous Books

... without distinction, was meant that the primitive Latins were swallowed by Magna Graecia. And by "the modern" belonging "to the fifth race"—both these small branchlets from whose veins had been strained out the last drop of the Atlantean blood—it was implied that the Mongoloid 4th race blood had already been eliminated. Occultists make a distinction between the races intermediate between any two root-races: the Westerns do not. The "old Romans" were Hellenes in a new ethnological ...

— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various

... appears in North China a new human type, found in upper layers in the same caves that sheltered Peking Man. This type is beyond doubt not Mongoloid, and may have been allied to the Ainu, a non-Mongol race still living in northern Japan. These, too, were a palaeolithic people, though some of their implements show technical advance. Later they disappear, probably because they were absorbed into various populations of central and ...

— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

Words linked to "Mongoloid" : imbecile, cretin, Mongoloid race, changeling, anthropology, idiot, mongolism, Asian, Asiatic, half-wit, moron, Mongolia