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humanoid

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Word definitions for humanoid in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having the appearance or characteristics of a human. n. A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A humanoid (; from English human and -oid "resembling") is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The earliest recorded use of the term, in 1870, referred to indigenous peoples in areas colonized by Europeans. By the 20th century, the ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1912 (adj.), an anthropological hybrid from human + -oid . As a noun, from 1925. Earlier (1906) brand name of a type of cow's milk altered to be closer to human milk intended as food for infants.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an automaton that resembles a human being [syn: android , mechanical man ]

Usage examples of humanoid.

In physique he closely resembled the Aliansa, being tall and robust and with a face less humanoid than the aborigines of the Mire and Mountain.

Since the hoer was moving down the row toward the humanoid robots, its passengers had no choice but to get off and go the other way.

In the center of the whole group were Obmi and his henchman Keak, well protected by tough humanoids and their powers, of course.

The cat-creature seemed unwilling to come near the center of the party, and that meant that it was most certainly vulnerable to spell and weapon - at least, those enchanted weapons wielded by Obmi, Keak, and a few others of the officers of the motley collection of humanoids.

Were the humanoids allied with the undead, given that a pyramid ship-long known to be an abode for mummies, liches, and other perversions-traveled in their fleet with them?

He was gnawing, grinding his teeth on the hangnail, then the nail itself, the base of the nail, the pale arc of quarter moon, the lunula, and there was something awful and atavistic in the scene, Chin unborn, curled in a membranous sac, a scary little geek-headed humanoid, sucking his scalloped hands.

Except for the soft sleek fur that covered their bodies, some slight differences in dentition, and the absence of fingernails the Naa were very humanoid.

The humanoid pressed four kelp-like, nailless fingers to his forehead.

The dispirited humanoids who had colonized the moon had never bothered to award a name to their principal population center, so it, too, was known as Naos III.

The perceptions of the Borellian Nomen were far more advanced than those of other humanoids.

The four-foot bubble with the Cygnan and the two humanoids curled inside was snubbed securely to the shaft.

The bubble with its curled-up Cygnan and fetal humanoids was still snubbed in place.

Currently undergoing field and flight tests, the Vig Zam, as it was called, was heavily armored and, because it had legs but no arms, only vaguely humanoid.

The Yahoos, regarded as a distinct species, humanoid rather than equine, represent the irrational bestiality that the Houyhnhnms reject.

The innards of the CI module formed a glittering assemblage before her, the microcircuits like a maze rendered too fine for the humanoid eye to follow.