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Australoid: Meaning and Definition of

Aus•tra•loid

Pronunciation: (ô'stru-loid"), [key]
— n.
  1. a descriptive category including principally the Australian Aborigines and sometimes including Papuans, Melanesians, various small-statured peoples, as Negritos, of the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and Andaman Islands, and some of the tribes of central and southern India.
—adj.
  1. pertaining to or having the characteristics of the Australoids.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
Australian terrier australopithecine
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