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anthropodermic

anthropodermic adjective: of a book: bound in human skin.

anthropodermic: of a book: bound in human skin
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Adjective

anthropodermic (not comparable)

  1. Of a book: bound in human skin.
    • The Necronomicon is a fictional anthropodermic book.

Origin of anthropodermic

From anthropo- + dermic.

Words formed from anthropodermic

  • autoanthropodermic

Questions about anthropodermic

What does anthropodermic mean?
Anthropodermic means of a book: bound in human skin.
What part of speech is anthropodermic?
Anthropodermic is an adjective.

Words near anthropodermic in the dictionary

  1. anthropoclastite
  2. anthropoclimatology
  3. anthropocosmic
  4. anthropod
  5. anthropodenial
  6. anthropodermic
  7. anthropodicies
  8. anthropodicy
  9. anthropoeia
  10. anthropogenealogical
  11. anthropogenesis

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