dragonoid

Noun

dragonoid (plural dragonoids)

1. A dragon-like creature of various kinds.
   • In 1963 he published The Dragon Masters, set on an alien world where man's descendants wage war with an off-world race of dragonoid aliens, each side using troops of genetically engineered mutants bred from captured enemy soldiers.1986, Jack Rawlins, Demon Prince: The Dissonant Worlds of Jack Vance, Borgo Press, →ISBN, page 10
   • ...Joining the forces of Tigernoid and Dragonoid endangers the balance of our universe. Even if you had committed no crime, you existence violates the laws of our world.2019, O’Melia, G., “The Final Years of Saturday Morning”, in Japanese Influence on American Children's Television, →DOI
2. A hypervalent organosilicon compound that features a five-membered coordination heterocycle incorporating a trifluorosilicon moiety (F₃Si–) and an internal Si←O coordination bond.
   • The reaction of the corresponding alkoxysilanes with boron trifluoride etherate leads to (2-benzoxazolylthiomethyl) and (2-benzothiazolylthiomethyl) substituted trifluorosilanes and methyldifluorosilanes having a dragonoid chelate structure. By the hydrolysis of...1993, Voronkov, M.G., Chernov, N.F., Trofimova, O.M. et al., “Organosilicon derivatives of 2-mercapto-substituted benzoxazoles, benzothiazoles and benzimidazoles.”, in Russ Chem Bull, →DOI
   • In developing our research on organic hypervalent silicon compounds containing the F3SimO group included into the five-membered coordination heterocycle, which we called the dragonoids, we decided to obtain a similar organic silicon derivative of 3-hydroxy-2-methyl-4-pyrone (maltol).2009, Voronkov, M.G., Korlyukov, A.A., Zel’bst, È.A. et al., “Unusual molecular structure of (C=O→Si←O′=C′) bis(2-methyl-4-pyrone-3-oxy)difluoro(λ6)siliconium”, in J Struct Chem, →DOI