"hengeyokai" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "1985, David Cook, Oriental Adventures, TSR Inc., →ISBN\nHengeyokai are intelligent, shape-changing animals. Several subraces exist, each a different type of animal. They are found throughout the Oriental world, usually on the fringes of human-settled lands."
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          "text": "1998-01-28, Lee Gold, Re: B5 Filk: You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Us Sinclair, rec.music.filk\nIf a hengeyokai fails to concentrate (or perhaps gets distracted -- due to being beaten, seeing a mouse, fatigue), the human form's ears may get pointed or a tail may appear."
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          "ref": "2001, Laurence C. Bush, Asian Horror Encyclopedia: Asian Horror Culture in Literature, Manga and Folklore, Writers Club Press, page 69:",
          "text": "Hengeyokai transfer between forms almost instantly, though when in human form, they often retain some mark of characteristic of their true animal nature.",
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          "text": "2013-10-12, Jasin Zujovic, Hengeyokai level adjustment, rec.games.frp.dnd\nI've been watching Inuyasha yesterday (too bad that's a German dub and I can understand almost nothing) and that got me wanting to make myself a hengeyokai character... and then I remembered the level adjustment."
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        "(folklore) A legendary Japanese animal with the ability to shapeshift into human form."
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