See demihuman on Wiktionary
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"text": "Halflings look upon other demihuman and humanoid races as stock for the stew pot.",
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"text": "In one version we learn that the people who built Nan Madol settled at the site because they were \"constantly afraid of the people of the center of Pohnpei,\" both the various demihuman, cannibalistic creatures and \"real people\" who resided ...",
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"ref": "2002, Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy, →ISBN:",
"text": "... fact from the moment he first lays eyes on the demihuman M'ling, before he has any notion of Moreau or his surgical feats. \"I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet — if the contradiction is credible — I ...",
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"ref": "2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 207:",
"text": "We can watch this happen, on page and screen, in werewolves. We can safely say that the werewolf is a widespread figure, not exclusive to European mythology. But it is also not a generic manifestation of the global demihuman.",
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"text": "features of a thousand faces upon that awful head: human faces, demihuman, reptilian, serpentine, batrachian, vulpine. […]and many others for which I have no ready descriptive terms.",
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