mixed blood
Multiple ethnic origins
Mixed blood refers to ancestry from more than one racial or ethnic group.
The term appears in historical and legal contexts—U.S. laws once classified people by blood quantum to determine rights and status.
Today the phrase sounds dated and clinical, often replaced by multiracial or mixed-race.
She was of mixed blood, her father Cherokee and her mother Irish.
- mestizoBiracial Latin American
- mulattoMixed-race person, archaic
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
- biracialHaving two racial ancestries
- multiracialOf multiple ethnicities
halfbreed · crossbreed · creole · heritage · dual heritage · ancestry · lineage · family tree · blended · interracial · mongrel · fusion · mingled · diverse · roots · identity · passing · bloodline
mixed bloodpurebred
Of single breed ancestry
pure blood · pureblood · full-blooded · unmixed · thoroughbred
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