Hyphenation of octoroon

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word octoroon? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

oc-toroon

Definitions of octoroon:

1.	An offspring of a quadroon and a white parent A person who is one-eighth black

Synonyms of octoroon:

noun	Octoroon, mixed-blood

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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