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Negro

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Noun

1. black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid

a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

Adjective

2. negro

relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair

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Negro

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noun plural -groes
1. 
a member of any of the dark-skinned indigenous peoples of Africa and their descendants elsewhere
adjective
2. 
relating to or characteristic of Negroes
noun
Río Negro
1. 
a river in NW South America, rising in E Colombia (as the Guainía) and flowing east, then south as part of the border between Colombia and Venezuela, entering Brazil and continuing southeast to join the Amazon at Manáus. Length: about 2250 km (1400 miles)
2. 
a river in S central Argentina, formed by the confluence of the Neuquén and Limay Rivers and flowing east and southeast to the Atlantic. Length: about 1014 km (630 miles)
3. 
a river in central Uruguay, rising in S Brazil and flowing southwest into the Uruguay River. Length: about 467 km (290 miles)

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Negro

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nounWord forms: plural ˈNegroes
1. 
a member of any of the indigenous dark-skinned peoples of Africa, living chiefly south of the Sahara
2. 
a person having some African ancestors; a black person
adjective
3. 
of, relating to, or for Negroes
1. 
river in N Brazil, flowing southeast into the Amazon, near Manaus: c. 1,400 mi (2,253 km)
2. 
river in SC Argentina, flowing east into the Atlantic: c. 700 mi (1,127 km)

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Negro

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n. pl. Ne·groes
Often Offensive
1. A black person.
2. A member of the Negroid race. Not in scientific use.

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