humanoidn.adj.

1870 A. J. Davis Fountain v. 68 They reach down to the deepest roots of society—find native humanoids in every stage of development—and begin, through evil and through good, to build the foundations of a new nation.

1925 J. A. Thomson Concerning Evol. iii. 210 The humanoids and the anthropoids parting company between a million and two million years ago.

1929 Man 4 4 The humanoids of Pliocene and early Pleistocene times, even if they can be imagined as capable of using tools or of having any necessity for using them, were amply provided with implements of natural production.

1936 C. J. Warden Emergence Human Culture iii. 87 The humanoids that managed to survive from age to age became less ape-like and more man-like as time went on.

1983 Q. Rev. Biol. 58 407/1 If human beings evolved from early ape-like humanoids, then it is difficult to treat the immortal soul as some ‘kind of precious jewel possessed only by members of the human species’.

1940 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Dec. 114/1 Now I rather liked Isip's collection of whackey-looking humanoids.

1965 Listener 14 Jan. 56/2 The culmination is reached when peaceful humanoids are ruled by vicious insects or lizards.

1983 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Triangle i.13 Also one primitive humanoid, about our size—who dies at an early age.

2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People xi. 237 Scores of gorilla-strong humanoids were rushing at him with intent to kill him and eat his flesh, and not necessarily in that order.

1912 A. Hrdlička in A. Hrdlička et al. Early Man in S. Amer. (Smithsonian Inst. Bureau Amer. Ethnol.) vii. 359 However, the atlas is ‘humanoid’ and not ‘anthropoid’.

1922 Glasgow Herald 23 Dec. 4 Then came the separating off of the larger Anthropoid Apes, leaving the main stem humanoid.

1934 Sci. Monthly Jan. 105/1 The acquisition of a stable supporting foot seems probably to mark..the transition from the anthropoid to the humanoid type.

1936 C. J. Warden Emergence Human Culture iii. 87 The humanoid stock must become specialized along human lines or forever perish from the earth.

1914 Indianapolis Star 19 Sept. 8/5 He is..a sort of humanoid ground glass, On which the passing world's reflected, Though by that glass all undetected.

1951 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 7 115 One crown has a cat or humanoid head in profile with large, crossed fangs.

1966 L. Cohen Beautiful Losers (1970) i. 96 It was just a shape of Edith: then it was just a humanoid shape: then it was just a shape.

1973 R. Fiennes Headless Valley iv. 81 The straightforward humanoid toes of the North American bigfoot.

2006 New Scientist 18 Feb. 30/1 Over the next decade humanoid robots will begin appearing in our homes and offices.

1944 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Sept. 46/1 I admit that it is decidedly a departure from the norm for a humanoid race to not appear interested in gainful trade—or acceptance of gifts.

1951 Astounding Sci. Fiction Mar. 56/1 Since this is a humanoid world, we'd have had to handle contact regardless of who spotted the degrader focus.

1965 Punch 7 Apr. 525/3 Ruined machinery..leads our heroes to a planet revolving around Altair, where they meet a humanoid race.

1977 G. Zebrowski Ashes & Stars 7 Some cradle pre-space humanoid cultures; still others have in-system space travel; many are dead worlds.

2005 C. Stross Accelerando ix. 394 Houses stand around, and open-fronted huts where a variety of humanoid waitrons attend to food and beverages for the passing realfolk.