negro : Idioms & Phrases

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Negro bug

  • (Zoöl.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produced a very disagreeable flavor.
Webster 1913

negro corn

  • the Indian millet or durra; so called in the West Indies. see Durra.
Webster 1913

Negro fly

  • (Zoöl.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosæ) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; called also carrot fly.
Webster 1913

Negro head

  • (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. Cant
Webster 1913

Negro monkey

  • (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.
Webster 1913

negro peach

  • noun a stout spreading or semi-climbing tropical shrub with round brownish-red warty fruit; Africa
    Sarcocephalus esculentus; Sarcocephalus latifolius.
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negro pepper

  • noun tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine
    Xylopia aethiopica; Guinea pepper.
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negro race

  • noun a dark-skinned race
    Negroid race; Black race.
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negro spiritual

  • noun a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
    spiritual.
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negro vine

  • noun twining vine with hairy foliage and dark purplish-brown flowers
    Vincetoxicum negrum; Vincetoxicum hirsutum.
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