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‖ Melanochroi, n. pl. Anthropology.|mɛləˈnɒkrəʊaɪ|
[mod.L.; formed by Huxley, who seems to have meant it as a transliteration of an assumed Gr. µελάνωχροι, f. µελαν-, µέλας black + ὠχρός pale. (On this view the correct mod.L. form would have been *melanōchrī; the irregularity occurs also in the other terms of Huxley's classification, Xanthomelanoi and Melanoi.) By subsequent writers, and in Dicts., the word has been taken as mod.L. melanŏchroī (sing. -ous), ad. Gr. µελανόχροος (= µελάγχροος), f. µελανο- (= µελαν-, µέλας) + χρόα skin.]
In Huxley's classification of the varieties of mankind: A subdivision of the Leiotrichi or smooth-haired class, having dark hair and pale complexion.
1866Huxley Preh. Rem. Caithn. 132 The Leiotrichi may be best subdivided, according to their complexion, into Xanthochroi, Melanochroi, Xanthomelanoi, and Melanoi. 1875Tylor in Encycl. Brit. II. 113/2 The Melanochroi or dark whites. 1878Ramsay Phys. Geog. xxxiv. 580 Dark-complexioned, black-haired and black-eyed Melanochroi.
Hence melanoˈchroic, melanochroid, melanochrous adjs., pertaining to or resembling the Melanochroi.
1865Huxley Crit. & Addr. vii. (1873) 157 Among Europeans, the melanochrous people are less obnoxious to its [yellow fever's] ravages than the xanthochrous. 1871Ibid. viii. 180 The melanochroic or dark stock of Europe. 1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. ii. i. 202 The melanochroid group: pale-complexioned, dark eyes, hair long and black. Example: Iberians [etc.]. 1899W. Crooke in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. XXVIII. 228 A fusion of Melanochroid Caucasic and Austral-negro blood. |