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noun
A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent.
The Tupi, who a few years earlier had flourished along these opulent coasts, had already been driven farther and farther back into the forest, and appeared in the records […] only as occasional domestic slaves and already mainly present as mixed blood mamelucos, the first children of multiracial Brazil.
adj
Born of a white father and American Indian mother, particularly in South America.