"wereanimal" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "were- + animal",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "were- + animal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wereanimals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "wereanimal (plural wereanimals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with were-",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 121",
          "text": "A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Brit Mandelo, Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun: A Tor.Com Original, Tor Books",
          "text": "Lysander was speaking to a confused-looking wereanimal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, J. D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton, Susan Krinard, Maggie Shayne, Out of this World, Penguin",
          "text": "His otherworldly energy danced along my skin, and as had happened in New Mexico with a very different wereanimal, it called that piece of Richard's beast that seemed to live inside me. It brought that power in a rush down my skin, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sucker Punch, Penguin, page 77",
          "text": "“You're a fool, Todd. You didn't need anything to protect you,” Muriel said. “Ray was killed by a wereanimal.” “They have the wereanimal that killed Ray locked up. He can't hurt anyone anymore,” she said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shapeshifter that can change between human and some animal form, such as a werewolf or werebear."
      ],
      "id": "en-wereanimal-en-noun-vzV5s1ux",
      "links": [
        [
          "shapeshifter",
          "shapeshifter"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "werewolf",
          "werewolf"
        ],
        [
          "werebear",
          "werebear"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "werebeast"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wereanimal"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "were",
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      },
      "expansion": "were- + animal",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "were- + animal",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wereanimals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wereanimal (plural wereanimals)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 121",
          "text": "A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Brit Mandelo, Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun: A Tor.Com Original, Tor Books",
          "text": "Lysander was speaking to a confused-looking wereanimal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, J. D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton, Susan Krinard, Maggie Shayne, Out of this World, Penguin",
          "text": "His otherworldly energy danced along my skin, and as had happened in New Mexico with a very different wereanimal, it called that piece of Richard's beast that seemed to live inside me. It brought that power in a rush down my skin, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sucker Punch, Penguin, page 77",
          "text": "“You're a fool, Todd. You didn't need anything to protect you,” Muriel said. “Ray was killed by a wereanimal.” “They have the wereanimal that killed Ray locked up. He can't hurt anyone anymore,” she said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shapeshifter that can change between human and some animal form, such as a werewolf or werebear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shapeshifter",
          "shapeshifter"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal"
        ],
        [
          "werewolf",
          "werewolf"
        ],
        [
          "werebear",
          "werebear"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "werebeast"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wereanimal"
}