Bushmanoid, adjective
- Forms:
- Also with small initial.
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Bushman + English adjective-forming suffix -oid ‘having the form or nature of, resembling’ (OED).
Of or resembling a Bushman (see San sense 1).
1940 R.A. Dart in Jrnl of R. Anthrop. Inst. Vol.70 No.1, 15The Bushmanoid races are not negroid stock.
1988 H. Angula in B. Wood Namibia 1884–1984 109In the Old Stone Age, states Murphy, the population of Ethiopia seems to have included groups of ‘Bushmanoid’ peoples who lived in the northern, eastern and western portions of the country.
Of or resembling a Bushman (see San sense 1).
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