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negrito

negrito noun: either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia.

negrito: either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia
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Noun (1)

negrito (plural negritos)

  1. Either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia.
  2. A Mexican shrub of the vervain family, Citharexylum berlandieri.

Noun (2) capitalized: Negrito

Negrito (plural Negritos or Negritoes or Negrito)

  1. A member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia.
    • The Negritos and the Semangs agree very closely in physical characteristics with each other and with the Andaman Islanders, while they differ in a marked manner from every Papuan race.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 452

Forms of negrito

pluralnegritos
pluralNegritos
pluralNegritoes
pluralNegrito

Origin of negrito

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish negrito (“short dark-skinned person”), from negro (“black person; dark-skinned person”) + -ito (“small; short; little”, diminutive suffix).

Questions about negrito

What does negrito mean?
Negrito means either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia.
What part of speech is negrito?
Negrito is a noun.
What is the plural of negrito?
The plural of negrito is negritos.

Words near negrito in the dictionary

  1. Negripo
  2. Negris
  3. negrish
  4. Negritic
  5. Negritid
  6. negrito
  7. Negritoes
  8. negritos
  9. negritude
  10. negritudes
  11. negro

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