Veddoid
nounEtymology From Vedda + -oid.
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Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences Historical A subtype of the Australoid race which includes the Vedda people of South India and others.
- 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.1981, D. G. E. Hall, History of South East Asia, page 6: