dragonoids

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
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