Theroid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Theroid is an adjective meaning Bestial, resembling an animal.
Meaning
Bestial, resembling an animal.
More Meanings
- Obsolete spelling of thyroid.
Example Sentences
[…]a ſwelling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ſide of the wind-pipe,[…].
There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid, so like brutes are the members of it.
Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.
Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include animalistic, animalish, animally, animal-like, beastlike, bestial.
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