adj
noun
Freq #202258
Meanings
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1
adj
Partially humanlike.
The greater exposure to danger which these more adventurous spirits encountered and the constant struggles that these semi-human creatures must have had with definite enemies no less than with the forces of nature provided factors which rapidly weeded out those unfitted for the new conditions, and by natural selection made real men of the survivors.
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2
noun
Any creature that is partly human or human-like.
Etymology
From semi- + human.