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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Negro \Ne"gro\ (n[=e]"gr[-o]), noun; pl. {Negroes} (n[=e]"gr[=o]z). [Sp. or Pg. negro, fr. negro black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.] A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.
2. A person of dark skin color descended at least in part from African negroes; in the United States, an {African-American}. [U.S. usage, sometimes considered offensive.] [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Negro \Ne"gro\, adjective Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
{Negro bug} (Zo["o]l.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produces a very disagreeable flavor.
{negro corn}, the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. See {Durra}. --McElrath.
{Negro fly} (Zo["o]l.), a black dipterous fly ({Psila ros[ae]}) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also {carrot fly}.
{Negro head} (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] --McElrath.
{Negro monkey} (Zo["o]l.), the {moor monkey}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
negro
adjective: relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
noun: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: {Black}, {Black person}, {blackamoor}, {Negroid}] [also: {negroes} (pl)]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Negro": American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
NEGRO, noun The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.
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