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theroid

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Bestial, resembling an animal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119, Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.

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adj

Meaning 2

Obsolete spelling of thyroid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete

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History

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”). Compare Theropoda.