[aw-struh-loid] 
| 1. | Anthropology. a descriptive category including principally the Australian Aborigines and sometimes including Papuans, Melanesians, various small-statured peoples, as Negritos, of the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, and Andaman Islands, and some of the tribes of central and southern India. |
| 2. | pertaining to or having the characteristics of the Australoids. |
| Aus·tra·loid (ô'strə-loid') adj. Anthropology Of or being a human racial classification traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as dark skin and dark curly hair, and including the Aboriginal peoples of Australia along with various peoples of southeast Asia, especially Melanesia and the Malay Archipelago. See Usage Note at race1. [Austral(ian) + -oid.] Aus'tra·loid' n. |
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