homiform

English

Etymology

From Latin homo (“man”) + -iform.

Adjective

homiform (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare or science fiction) In human form.
    • 1883, George Thomas May, The Ever-living Life:
      In the homiform frame embruted, to the classes of the grades
    • 2013, Dean Vyas, Pastimes of the Unseen:
      The droids belonging to the renegade faction were slaves, despite often having superior intellect and physical prowess, “athletic” capabilities (at least this was so with many of the homiform “androids”)

References

“homiform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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