Hottentot (racial term) in an ethnic sense. From the eighteenth century onwards, the term "hottentot" was also a term of abuse without a specific ethnic sense, comparable to "barbarian" or "cannibal". In its ethnic sense, it had developed connotations of savagery and primitivism soon already in the seventeenth century: colonial depictions of the Hottentots (Khoikhoi) in the seventeenth to eighteenth century were characterized by savagery, often suggestive of cannibalism or the consumption of raw flesh, physiological features such as steatopygia and elongated labia perceived as primitive or "simian"; and a perception of the click sounds in the Khoikhoi languages as "bestial". Thus it
Hottentot (racial term) known as 'hottentot cabbage'. It has also given rise to the scientific name for one genus of scorpion, "Hottentotta", and may be the origin of the epithet "tottum" in the botanical name "Leucospermum tottum". Hottentot (racial term) Hottentot (British and South African English ) is a term historically used of the Khoikhoi, the non-Bantu indigenous nomadic pastoralists of South Africa. The term has also been used to refer to the non-Bantu indigenous population as a whole, now collectively known as the Khoisan. Use of the term is now deprecated and considered offensive, the preferred name for the non-Bantu indigenous people