Home › Words › H › hexadecaroonhexadecaroonhexadecaroon · noun — A person who has one-sixteenth black ancestry.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom hexadeca- + the ending of octoroon, quintroon, etc.nounA person who has one-sixteenth black ancestry.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.hexadecahedroid 59% match — The 16-cell or hexadecachoron. vs hexadecaroon →hexadecile 55% match — Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into sixteen equally numerous subsets; a subset thus obtained. vs hexadecaroon →hexadecaploid 54% match — Having sixteen complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell. vs hexadecaroon →hexadecamer 54% match — An oligomer having sixteen subunits. vs hexadecaroon →hexadecyl 53% match — The univalent radical derived from hexadecane vs hexadecaroon →halfrican 53% match — Biracial, of one black parent and one of another race. vs hexadecaroon →sacatra 53% match — A person having one black and one griffe parent; a person whose ancestry is seven-eighths black and one-eighth white. vs hexadecaroon →dustee 52% match — A person who is of 1/32 black ancestry, the child of a fustee and a white. vs hexadecaroon →