† Negroticadj.

1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta & Cameroons Mountains 275 Negrotic Africa—not unlike her sisters Europe and Asia—has three distinctly marked forms of government.

1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land I. 34 Nothing negrotic now astonishes us.

1889 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 116 Once in Palestine, these Jews absorbed part of the native population. From Egypt they carried with them perhaps some Negrotic tribes, and thus was formed the type shown by the Jews of Lachish.

1926 H. O. Osgood So this is Jazz ii. 11 The contortions of negro jazz players..are purely negrotic in themselves and come direct from the ‘ring shout’, the dances of religious frenzy or ecstasy, without question of African origin, brought here from across the ocean by the slaves.