Centauroid vs Centaur - What's the difference?
centauroid | centaur |
Of or pertaining to something resembling a centaur in shape — particularly, a creature having a humanoid torso adjoining a quadrupedal body.
(Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
(astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized)
Centauroid is a see also of centaur.
As nouns the difference between centauroid and centaur
is that centauroid is (fantasy|science fiction) a creature resembling a centaur while centaur is (greek mythology) a mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.As a adjective centauroid
is of or pertaining to something resembling a centaur in shape — particularly, a creature having a humanoid torso adjoining a quadrupedal body.centauroid
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(en adjective)- 1974: "'Centauroid' was a very loose description. The burly two-armed torso merged smoothly with the four-legged barrel..." — Poul Anderson, Fire Time