Octoroon

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Octoroon \Oc`to*roon"\, n. [L. octo eight + -roon, as in
     quadroon.]
     The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Octoroon
       n : an offspring of a Quadroon and a White parent; a person who
           is one-eighth Black

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "octoroon":
     Cape Colored, Eurasian, cattalo, citrange, cross, crossbreed,
     griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, high yellow,
     hinny, hybrid, ladino, liger, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis,
     metisse, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mulatto, mule, mustee,
     plumcot, quadroon, quintroon, sambo, tangelo, tigon, zebrass,
     zebrule