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mongoloid
CIDE DICTIONARY
mongoloid, a. [Mongol + -oid.].
- Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols. Huxley. [1913 Webster]
- Of, related to, or affected with, Down syndrome; -- not a technical term. [PJC]
mongoloid, n.
A person affected with Down syndrome; -- not a technical term. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mongoloid, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 characteristic of the Mongolians, esp. in having a broad flat yellowish face.
2 (mongoloid) often offens. having the characteristic symptoms of Down's syndrome.
--n. a Mongoloid or mongoloid person.
--adj.
1 characteristic of the Mongolians, esp. in having a broad flat yellowish face.
2 (mongoloid) often offens. having the characteristic symptoms of Down's syndrome.
--n. a Mongoloid or mongoloid person.
THESAURUS
mongoloid
arrested, babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dithering, driveling, drooling, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, moronic, not all there, retarded, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, subnormalFor further exploring for "mongoloid" in Webster Dictionary Online
