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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
mis·ceg·e·na·tion       [mi-sej-uh-ney-shuhn, mis-i-juh-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races, esp., in the U.S., between a black and a white person.
2.interbreeding between members of different races.
3.the mixing or a mixture of races by interbreeding.
[Origin: irreg. < L miscé(re) to mix + gen(us) race, stock, species + -ation; allegedly coined by U.S. journalist David Goodman Croly (1829–89) in a pamphlet published anonymously in 1864]

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mis·ce·ge·net·ic       [mis-i-juh-net-ik, mi-sej-uh-] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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mis·ceg·e·na·tion       (mĭ-sěj'ə-nā'shən, mĭs'ĭ-jə-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
  2. Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.
  3. A mixture or hybridization: "There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule" (Don McLeese).


[Latin miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots + genus, race; see genə- in Indo-European roots + -ation.]

mis·ceg'e·na'tion·al adj.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
miscegenation 
1864, coined irregularly in Amer.Eng. from L. miscere "mix" + genus "race" (see genus).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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miscegenation

noun
reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

miscegenation mis·ceg·e·na·tion (mĭ-sěj'ə-nā'shən, mĭs'ĭ-jə-)
n.
Marriage or sexual relations between individuals of different races.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Miscegenation

Mis`ce*ge*na"tion\, n. [L. miscere to mix + the root of genus race.] A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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