Characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race.
Referring to one of the three major varieties (see races) of humans, Homo sapiens sapiens, mainly the indigenous peoples of Subsaharan Africa and some of the nearby islands in the Indian Ocean and the W Pacific. General physical traits include dark eyes, tightly curled dark hair, brown to very dark skin, little beard or body hair, low to medium-bridged wide noses, and wide or everted lips. See Caucasoid, Mongoloid.