— miscegenetic /mis'i jeuh net"ik, mi sej'euh-/ , adj.
/mi sej'euh nay"sheuhn, mis'i jeuh-/ , n.
1. marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races, esp., in the U.S., between a black and a white person.
2. interbreeding between members of different races.
3. the mixing or a mixture of races by interbreeding.
[ irreg. misce ( re ) to mix + gen ( us ) race, stock, species + -ATION; allegedly coined by U.S. journalist David Goodman Croly (1829-89) in a pamphlet published anonymously in 1864 ]