NEGRITO
\nɛɡɹˈiːtə͡ʊ], \nɛɡɹˈiːtəʊ], \n_ɛ_ɡ_ɹ_ˈiː_t_əʊ]\
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ne-gr[=e]'to, n. the Spanish name for certain tribes of negro-like diminutive people in the interior of some of the Philippine Islands--also Aëtas or Itas: in a wider sense, the Papuans and all the Melanesian peoples of Polynesia.
By Thomas Davidson
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