English Explanatory Dictionary

hexadecaroon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A person who has one-sixteenth black ancestry.

Word forms

hexadecaroon hexadecaroons

Etymology

From hexadeca- + the ending of octoroon, quintroon, etc.

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