"skin-group" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: skin-groups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} skin-group (plural skin-groups)
  1. Alternative form of skin group Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: skin group
    Sense id: en-skin-group-en-noun-I~e1Zy2~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2008, Heide Smith, Brian Oram Smith, Portrait of a People: The Tiwi of Northern Australia",
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          "ref": "2009, Rob Ranzijn, Keith R. McConnochie, Wendy Nolan, Psychology and Indigenous Australians, page 50",
          "text": "In Walbiri society you belong to one of these eight skin-groups. They dominate your social life; they determine who you can marry, and they determine how you relate to everybody else in Walbiri society.",
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          "text": "She moved from skin-group to skin-group at the start of each of the six Noongar seasons, helping each family as best she could, and circulating the idea that violent resistance to the Europeans would result in more dead Noongar.",
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