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nonhumanoid

nonhumanoid adjective: not humanoid; being neither human nor humanlike; possessing neither the human nor humanoid features or body, such as that of a quadrupedal animal (horse), or a naturally limbless species (snakes).

Adjective

nonhumanoid (not comparable)

  1. Not humanoid; being neither human nor humanlike; possessing neither the human nor humanoid features or body, such as that of a quadrupedal animal (horse), or a naturally limbless species (snakes).
    • Malcolm Knight was reading the item about Skos for the tenth time, frowning with the effort of translating the difficult symbology. “Skōs,” he read, “sole satellite of long-period eclipsing binary, components red and blue-white. (For primaries’ details see appropriate listing in Volume III.) Mass...1954, Idris Seabright, Portals of Tomorrow: The Best Tales of Science Fiction, and Other Fantasy, Rinehart, page 126
    • Nonhumanoid aliens and terrestrial monsters in almost every SF film combine biology and technology in various ways so as to become living contradictions.1980, Vivian Carol Sobchack, The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film, 1950-75, A.S. Barnes, →ISBN, page 219

Noun

nonhumanoid (plural nonhumanoids)

  1. Any creature that is not humanoid.

Forms of nonhumanoid

pluralnonhumanoids

Origin of nonhumanoid

From non- + humanoid.

Questions about nonhumanoid

What does nonhumanoid mean?
Nonhumanoid means not humanoid; being neither human nor humanlike; possessing neither the human nor humanoid features or body, such as that of a quadrupedal animal (horse), or a naturally limbless species (snakes).
What part of speech is nonhumanoid?
Nonhumanoid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonhumanoid in the dictionary

  1. nonhumanistic
  2. nonhumanists
  3. nonhumanitarian
  4. nonhumanity
  5. nonhumanness
  6. nonhumanoid
  7. nonhumanoids
  8. nonhumans
  9. nonhumiliating
  10. nonhumoral
  11. nonhumorous

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