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单词 half-race
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half-racen.

Brit. /ˈhɑːfreɪs/, U.S. /ˈhæfˌreɪs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: half adj., race n.6
Etymology: < half adj. + race n.6 With sense 1 compare German †Halbrasse group of people of mixed racial, especially biracial descent (1775 as Halbrace , or earlier); compare also earlier half-caste n. In sense 2 after German †Halbrasse ( H. De Vries Mutationstheorie I. (1901) 424, in this sense).
1. A group of people who are of mixed racial, esp. biracial, descent. Obsolete.
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1820 J. Crawfurd Hist. Indian Archipel. II. vii. x. 468 (note) Most of them, I believe, were Christians, that they mixed with the half-race of Europeans.
1855 S. R. Ward Autobiogr. Fugitive Negro iii. vi. 350 They treated their children of African blood as half-castes..—making..a..half-race..uncomfortable among whites or blacks.
2. Botany. A race (race n.6 5a) of plants in which only some individuals show the phenotype characteristic of the race rather than that of the species. Now rare and chiefly historical.
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the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > types of
stroller1723
natural order1785
subvariety1785
line1805
alliance1835
aggregate1859
stirps1866
segregate1871
cultigen1918
agamospecies1929
1905 H. de Vries Species & Varieties xii. 358 The first is only half-way a variety, and therefore would deserve the name of a half-race.
1958 R. R. Gates Taxon. & Genetics Oenothera 24 O. suaveolens produced the parallel mutations..jaculatrix (near linear leaves) and apetala (low stature, narrow leaves, some flowers in the half-race having one or more petals).
1999 Isis 90 258 De Vries needed this new state of the hereditary characters to explain the occurrence of what he called intermediate or half races and balanced races.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

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half-race
half-race n. Bot. (see quots.).
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1906 R. H. Lock Variation, Hered. & Evol. v. 141 In the case of a half-race a small percentage only of seedlings is found to produce plants which show the racial character.
1906 R. H. Lock Variation, Hered. & Evol. v. 145 A half-race might have been defined as a strain in which the character of the complete race is usually latent, and only rarely appears.
1928 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 4) 169/2 Half-race, a form intermediate between a species and a variety of it, producing but few seedlings of the racial character, the majority reverting to the specific type.
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