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) original role of ethnic designator, the term "Hottentot" was included into a variety of derived terms, such as the Hottentot Corps, the first Coloured unit to be formed in the South African army, originally called the "Corps Bastaard Hottentoten" (Dutch: "Corps of Bastard Hottentots"), organised in 1781 by the Dutch colonial administration of the time. The word is also used in the common names of a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the "Africanis" dogs sometimes called 'Hottentot hunting dogs'; the fish "Pachymetopon blochii", frequently simply called "hottentots"; "Carpobrotus edulis", commonly known as a 'hottentot-fig'; and "Trachyandra", commonly