‖ Melanoi,n.pl.Anthropology. [Intended as mod.L.; formed irregularly by transliteration of Gr. µελανοί, pl. of µελανός, var. of µέλας black.] Huxley's name for the black-haired and dark-complexioned division of his class Leiotrichi or smooth-haired peoples. 1866[see Melanochroi].