theroid

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Ancient Greek θήρ (thḗr, “beast, fantastic animal”). Compare Theropoda. ==== Adjective ==== theroid (comparative more theroid, superlative most theroid) Bestial, resembling an animal. 1994, Chantal Zabus, Prospero′s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest, Theo D′Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist, page 119, Whatever Caliban′s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster. === Etymology 2 === ==== Adjective ==== theroid (not comparable) Obsolete spelling of thyroid. === Anagrams === orthide