race

³race

noun

Definition of RACE

1

: a breeding stock of animals

2

a : a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock b : a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics

3

a : an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species; also : a taxonomic category (as a subspecies) representing such a group b : breed c : a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits

4

obsolete : inherited temperament or disposition

5

: distinctive flavor, taste, or strength

Origin of RACE

Middle French, generation, from Old Italian razza

First Known Use: 1580

Other Genetics Terms

chimera, hermaphrodite, plasticity