biomechanoid

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English

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Etymology

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From bio- +‎ mechanoid.

Noun

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biomechanoid (plural biomechanoids)

  1. (science fiction) A robot in the form of an animal.
    • 2015 September 23, Ben Child, “Ridley Scott plans three more Prometheus films before Alien”, in The Guardian[1]:
      I always thought that that original ship, which I call the Croissant, was a battleship, holding these biomechanoid creatures that were all about destruction.