Definition of "ladino" [ladino]

• Trifolium repens, a larger variety of white clover. (noun)
• A mixed-race descendant of whites and Native Americans; a mestizo. (noun)

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• "He considers himself quite the daring explorer as he travels the modern paved highways of Chiapas in his airconditioned SUV with the cel phone at the ready to summon Mr. Wizard whenever he confuses the orange-clad machete-wielding highway maintenance crews with militant indigenous thirsting for the blood of their next ladino victim."
• "Population growth is high due to in-migration of ladino colonists from areas of land-exhaustion, refugees from El Salvador, and Kekchí Amerindians from Alta Verapaz region."
• "Poll tax for ladino and Indian peasants caused such opposition that it was temporarily suspended (1833)."