Veddoid

English

Etymology

Vedda +‎ -oid

Adjective

Veddoid (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to an anthropological grouping including the Vedda people 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

• Australoid