Veddoid

English

Etymology

From Vedda +‎ -oid.

Noun

Veddoid (plural Veddoids)

1. (anthropology, historical) A subtype of the Australoid race which includes the Vedda people of South India and others.
   • 1981, D. G. E. Hall, History of South East Asia, page 6:

     Anthropologists have classified these people as Veddoid after the Vedda tribes of Ceylon, and assign to this group the Senoi and Sakai hill-tribes of Malaya, and other backward peoples of south Celebes and on the Engano and Mentawei Islands off the west coast of Sumatra.

See also

• Australid
• Indo-Melanid
• Melanesid
• Negritid