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Monsterlike
Answer for the clue "Monsterlike ", 8 letters:
teratoid
Word definitions for teratoid in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teratoid \Ter"a*toid\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, monster + -oid.] Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized. --S. D. Gross.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context genetics medicine English) monster-like, exhibiting abnormal development. n. 1 (context medicine English) An abnormal tumor similar to a teratoma. 2 (context literature English) A mutant.
Usage examples of teratoid.
The doors were barred, the windows occluded, but by staring through the cracks in the walls I managed to catch glimpses of hospital gurneys, surgical lights, and three enormous glass beakers in which sallow, teratoid fetuses drifted like pickles in brine.
We had descended perhaps a hundred steps when we reached a door painted with a crimson teratoid sign that appeared to me to be a glyph from some tongue beyond the shores of Urth.