MIXED-BLOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mixed-blood mean? 

• MIXED-BLOOD (noun)
  The noun MIXED-BLOOD has 1 sense:

1. a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups

  Familiarity information: MIXED-BLOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIXED-BLOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose ancestors belonged to two or more racial groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mixed-blood" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mixed-blood"):

mulatto (an offspring of a black and a white parent)

quadroon (an offspring of a mulatto and a white parent; a person who is one-quarter black)

octoroon (an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black)

half-caste (an offensive term for the offspring of parents of different racial groups or cultures)

Metis (a person in western Canada who is of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry)