Wiktionary
a. Resembling or characteristic of a bird. n. (context scifi fantasy English) Any bird-like creature.
Usage examples of "ornithoid".
The inner room was typical: spacious and sparsely furbished, a few austere decorations, bench and desk and office machinery adapted to ornithoid requirements.
The remaining three digits of the ancestral ornithoid had fused to produce the alatan bone which swept backward for more than a meter.
Pat saw the gleaming fangs in the open mouth as the hunter struck at the neck, saw the frantically writhing ornithoid thrust a protecting arm between his throat and the seeking jawsand the long teeth closed on empty air.
The ornithoid looked up and saw the humans, just as a beam of bluish light burned past his face and obliterated a patch of leaves behind him.
Ornithoid, mammaloid, and reptiloid arboreals glided or flew through winding emerald tunnels.