negro
Noun · AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)Synonyms: BlackBlack personblackamoorNegroNegroid
Adjective (1)
- 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
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Negro \Ne"gro\ (n[=e]"gr[-o]), n.; 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. [1913 Webster]
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]
Negro \Ne"gro\, a. Of or pertaining to negroes; black. [1913 Webster]
Negro bug (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosae) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also carrot fly.
Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] --McElrath.
Negro monkey (Zool.), the moor monkey. [1913 Webster]
The Devil's Dictionary
NEGRO, n. 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.