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blood quanta

blood quanta is the plural of blood quantum.

Meaning of blood quantum

Noun

blood quantum (plural blood quantums or blood quanta)

  1. (US, offensive, proscribed, sometimes) The fraction of a person's ancestors, out of their total ancestors, who are documented as full-blooded Native Americans.
    • Native blood quantum was introduced in 1705 at the Virginia Colony. If you were at least half Native, you didn’t have the same rights as white people. Blood quantum and tribal membership qualifications have since been turned over to individual tribes to decide.2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 137

Questions about blood quanta

What is blood quanta the plural of?
Blood quanta is the plural of blood quantum.

Words near blood quanta in the dictionary

  1. blood poisonings
  2. blood pressure
  3. blood pressures
  4. blood pudding
  5. blood puddings
  6. blood quanta
  7. blood quantum
  8. blood quantums
  9. blood rain
  10. blood rains
  11. blood red

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