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单词 theroid
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Definition of theroid in English:

theroid

adjective ˈθɪərɔɪd
rare
  • Resembling an animal; bestial.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.
    • Whenever he saw in the street a mother escorting her congenitally deformed, theroid adolescent son, he was always struck by the grief and exhaustion indelibly imprinted on the face of this woman.
    • Dr. Ingrid Skinner disappeared with a number of theroid specimens that have mutated into monsters.
    • In vain does Geology lay bare the Tertiary formation, with its enormous theroid mammalia, far surpassing in size the largest animals we are acquainted with.
    • Such a Materialist is a theroid idiot with the stamp of the goose upon him.
    Synonyms
    animal, beast-like, animalistic

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Greek thēr 'beast' + -oid.

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