Dragonoid
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A dragon-like creature of various kinds.
"In 1963 he published The Dragon Masters, set on an alien world where man's descendants wage war with an off-world race of dragonoid aliens, each side using troops of genetically engineered mutants bred from captured enemy soldiers."
- 2 A hypervalent organosilicon compound that features a five-membered coordination heterocycle incorporating a trifluorosilicon moiety (F₃Si–) and an internal Si←O coordination bond.
"The reaction of the corresponding alkoxysilanes with boron trifluoride etherate leads to (2-benzoxazolylthiomethyl) and (2-benzothiazolylthiomethyl) substituted trifluorosilanes and methyldifluorosilanes having a dragonoid chelate structure. By the hydrolysis of (2-heterylthiomethyl)trimethoxysilanes, new organosilicon sorbents, poly(2-heteryl-thiomethyl)silsesquioxanes have been synthesized."
Example
More examples"In 1963 he published The Dragon Masters, set on an alien world where man's descendants wage war with an off-world race of dragonoid aliens, each side using troops of genetically engineered mutants bred from captured enemy soldiers."
Etymology
From dragon + -oid.
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