Dated Anthropology: a now largely abandoned racial classification of humankind that grouped together the peoples indigenous to Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, parts of Central Asia, and South Asia.
In the 19th century, anthropologists classified people from Europe and parts of Asia as belonging to the Caucasoid race.
Dated Anthropology: an individual regarded as belonging to the Caucasoid racial grouping.
During the early 20th century, census takers might record someone of European ancestry as a Caucasoid.
Caucasoidadjective
Dated Anthropology, sometimes offensive: relating to the Caucasian (Caucasoid) racial classification, typically referring to peoples of European, North African, or Southwest Asian descent.
The anthropologist examined the supposedly Caucasoid skull and noted its distinct nasal aperture.