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skin-group

skin-group is the alternative form of skin group.

Meaning of skin group

Noun

skin group (plural skin groups)

  1. An Australian Aborigine social division, which is inherited from the mother and which determines whom one can marry and how one relates to others.
    • A person is born into their skin group and thus, in addition to a personal name, shares with other relatives who are similarly classified, a skin name.2002, Diane Bell, Daughters of the Dreaming, →ISBN, page 18

Forms of skin-group

pluralskin-groups

Questions about skin-group

What is skin-group the alternative form of?
Skin-group is the alternative form of skin group.

Words near skin-group in the dictionary

  1. skin-dives
  2. skin-diving
  3. skin-dove
  4. skin-flick
  5. skin-graft
  6. skin-group
  7. skin-groups
  8. skin-mag
  9. skin-mags
  10. skin-merchant
  11. skin-merchants

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