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centauroid

a. Of or pertaining to something resembling a centaur in shape — particularly, a creature having a humanoid torso adjoining a quadrupedal body. n. (context fantasy science fiction English) A creature resembling a centaur.

Usage examples of "centauroid".

The biggest centauroid lashed out to thump the worrier between his retracted primary eyestalks.

The monster was strong, much stronger than a young centauroid of the same size.

All around the centauroid camp the Leaders jumped to their feet and screamed for their Fighters to attack.

Conorado nodded, he believed he was right about the centauroid thanking the Marines for helping drive the Skinks away--it looked like the Skinks had been using some of them as slaves.

But once on the ground, the Gekir chief supported herself on her four rear legs and raised her short torso and long neck in something of a centauroid fashion, although even ripples of skin under the fur gave an impression not of Dillian rigidity but almost of liquidity.

Brazil, Gypsy, Marquoz, centauroid Mavra Chang, and, interestingly, Yua.

Quagmire, from the edge of the nearby rain forest a small group of centauroids unlike any the BHHEI mission had encountered in nine months of study watched quietly.

The centauroids, on the other hand, were fascinated by the decomposing foodstuffs in the composters.

The way the centauroids attended each other, their evident communication, their use of tools--at least some of which were made rather than found--indicated to him that they had some form of intelligence.

Kill all armed centauroids, kill all who are bigger than people, and kill the smallest ones.

When the Master saw the central group of centauroids begin to break up, he ordered the attack.

The monsters worked them hard, thought them ideal pack-animals, loaded them with burdens that weighed more than the centauroids did.

The two Masters stood in the lee of a porch roof, watching the centauroids struggle under their burdens.

Thoroughly disoriented as well as weakened, the freed centauroids swam across the river and wandered into the forest.

Two Junior Leaders watched the centauroids leaving, growled at each other, then went to the Senior Master with a proposal.