Topic summary
Afro-textured hair
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Kinky hair.
Terminology
English adjectives such as woolly, kinky, or spiraled have been used in the mid-20th century to describe natural afro-textured hair. More formally, ulotrichous ('curly-haired' from Ancient Greek: οὖλος, romanized: oûlos, lit. 'crisp, curly' and Ancient Greek: θρίξ, romanized: thríx, lit. 'hair') refers to afro-textured hair, its antonym being leiotrichous ('smooth-haired'). Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1825 introduced the scientific term Oulotrichi for the purpose of human taxonomy.