melanoderm
/ˈmɛlənə(ʊ)dəːm/Cultural Anthropol.
noun
A member of a dark-skinned people.
adjective
Designating or belonging to a dark-skinned people; melanodermic.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Alfred Cort Haddon (1855–1940), anthropologist. From melano- + -derm. With the adjective compare earlier melanodermic.
- Bioko
- biol.
- bioleaching
- biolinguistic
- biolinguistics
- biolistic
- biolistics
- biolith
- biologic
- biological
- biological anthropologist
- biological anthropology
- biological assay
- biological chemistry
- biological clock
- biological control
- biological determinism
- biological diversity
- biological engineering
- biological hole
- biological invader
- biological invasion
- biologically
- biologically active
- biological membrane