leucoethiopic

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Etymology[edit]

leuco- +‎ Ethiopic

Adjective[edit]

leucoethiopic (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) White and black; said of a white animal of a black species, or an albino of the Negro race.
    • 1822, William Lawrence, Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of, page 249:
      Hence the notion of entire leucoethiopic nations may be regarded as completely unfounded.
    • 2018, Forever People, Suddenly Satan and Other Twisted Shorts, page 96:
      They may not be leucoethiopic in the classic sense, but it's clearly the same leucous pigmentation disorder.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for leucoethiopic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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