semihuman

semihuman

See also: semi-human

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ human

Adjective

semihuman (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of semi-human
   • 1909 March 1, “Missing Link”, in Progress‎, page 171:

     It narrates how some skeletons were found in one of the French Departments semihuman in character, the body apish, and the skull human.

   • 1967 April 21, “Behavioral Research: Rehumamized Chimps”, in TIME‎:

     "In the forest," Kortlandt says, "the semihuman element in the behavior of apes faded away to a large extent."

   • 1994 February 21, “SEGA!”, in BusinessWeek‎:

     Four stories up, young game creators in T-shirts peck away at Silicon Graphics Inc. workstations, putting semihuman figures through movements that defy gravity and logic.

   • 2005 September 22, John C. Yoder, “"The Pygmies Were Our Compass": Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 CE(Book review)”, in The Historian‎:

     Somewhat like people in the ancient and medieval world, who imagined semihuman creatures standing between animal life and civilization, modern observers often assume Pygmies are Stone Age relics who exist as social fossils in the deep recesses of the equatorial forests.

Noun

semihuman (plural semihumans)

1. Alternative form of semi-human

Anagrams

• Humeanism