theroid

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   beastlike or resembling a wild animal; historical and offensive when used to demean a person

   The nineteenth-century writer used theroid as a demeaning label for people he considered beastlike.

2. 2
   adj

   an obsolete spelling of thyroid

   An early anatomy text used theroid where a modern edition would print thyroid.

In the beastlike sense, formed from Greek ther ("wild beast") + -oid ("resembling"). An unrelated obsolete spelling theroid also occurred for thyroid. The historical human-description sense is now chiefly encountered in discussions or quotations of discredited classifications.

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