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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) mestizo
a person of racially mixed ancestry, esp., in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European ancestry, or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign ancestry.

Etymology: (1580–90; < Sp, n. use of adj. mestizo < LL mixtīcius commingled = L

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) mestizo, ladino
a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)

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1. (noun) mestizo
the offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock

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