Home › Words › Q › quintroonquintroonquintroon means the offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.EtymologyBorrowed from Spanish quinterón (“offspring of a quadroon and a white person”).nounThe offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.quartole 59% match — A quadruplet. vs quintroon →musteefino 59% match — A child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent. vs quintroon →terceroon 58% match — A person with one white and one mulatto parent. vs quintroon →hexadecaroon 57% match — A person who has one-sixteenth black ancestry. vs quintroon →costee 57% match — A quadroon. vs quintroon →subquadruple 57% match — Containing one part of four; in the ratio of one to four. vs quintroon →chotara 55% match — A person of mixed race; half-caste. vs quintroon →quarteron 54% match — A quarter; especially, a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. vs quintroon →