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racial

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ra·cial  (rshl)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of race or races.
2. Arising from or based on differences among human racial groups: racial conflict; racial discrimination.
racial·ly adv.
racial
Adjective
1. relating to the division of the human species into races
2. typically associated with any such group
racially adv
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Adj.1.racial - of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people; "racial groups"
2.racial - of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups; "racial differences"; "racial discrimination"
nonracial - not racial; having nothing to do with race or races; "his remarks were intended to be completely nonracial"; "a nonracial reason for the peremptory challenge of the juror"
racial
adjective ethnic, ethnological, national, folk, genetic, tribal, genealogical
Translations
Spanish racial [ˈreɪʃl] adj → racial
French racial [ˈreɪʃl] adj → racial(e)
German racial [ˈreɪʃl] adj → Rassen-
Italian racial [ˈreɪʃl] adj → razziale
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Though the Britons were conquered and chiefly supplanted later on by the Anglo-Saxons, enough of them, as we shall see, were spared and intermarried with the victors to transmit something of their racial qualities to the English nation and literature.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
It is a power that is partly racial and partly individual: a power impregnated with some mysterious quality, partly hypnotic, partly mesmeric, which seems to take away from eyes that meet them all power of resistance--nay, all power of wishing to resist.
The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context
Talu gave us careful directions for the journey to Kadabra, the capital city of the Okar nation, which is the racial name of the yellow men.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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