teratoid

Dec. 17th, 2012 07:30 am
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teratoid (TER-uh-toid) - adj., resembling a monster, grotesquely deformed; monstrous, abnormal.


Mostly a biology term, through I'm sure there's some Japanese movies that could use it. Coined in the 1870s from either scientific terato- or its Greek root teras, monster, prodigy. See also teratology, the study of birth defects.

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