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skin groups

skin groups is the plural 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

Questions about skin groups

What is skin groups the plural of?
Skin groups is the plural of skin group.

Words near skin groups in the dictionary

  1. skin grafted
  2. skin grafting
  3. skin graftings
  4. skin grafts
  5. skin group
  6. skin groups
  7. skin hunger
  8. skin in the game
  9. skin job
  10. skin jobs
  11. skin mag

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