Negro
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- 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.
- When used as a noun, it is a racial slur that refers to a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- The word negro means the color black in both Spanish and in Portuguese (from Latin niger)
- In medicine, the term nigra is often used to refer to the color black.
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