Did you by any chance mean one of these? geoid, glenoid
Etymologies
- From gyno- + android (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The big gender difference comes in the form of the classic apple and pear shapes called gynoid and android.”
“Where else are you going to be able to find out what a word like "gynoid" means (which I'd never heard of before now)?”
“Does anyone else hate the word "gynoid" as much as me?”
“Furthermore, android is the correct term for a masculine robot and gynoid is the term for a feminine robot.”
“There are also some other fun bits - gynoid assassins, and underwater plane battles and geeky inventor sidekicks.”
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow - Kevin J. Anderson
“There's Actroid, a mannequinesque gynoid who wows corporate guests with her dynamic facial expressions and cheeky conversation skills (ask her how much she weighs, and she'll tell you what she can bench-press).”
“The medical terms for pear-shape and apple-shape are “gynoid” and “android” – that is, typically female and typically male.”
“I myself am fascinated with doll-specific impossibilities, and while the majority of my video collection is probably quite irrelevant, I offer up Philips' shaving gynoid as a faintly similar breadcrumb.”
“The gynoid or “pearshape” is the healthy one to have, regardless of how you think it looks to be bottom heavy.”
“And all that use of the word "she" is justified, as the bot is quite definitely convincingly female -- which technically makes her a gynoid rather than an android.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gynoid’.
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Humanoids
Magical, mechanical, or medical. All man-made.
golem, android, humanoid, Frankenstein, inukshuk, bioroid, replicant, biorobot, automaton, gynoid, droid, cyborg and 12 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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More Than Human
Beings that look human but are not, and powers that people can have.
succubus, incubus, gynoid, seraphim, clairvoyance, lycanthropy, psychometry, telekinesis, dhampir, jedi, pyrokinesis, esper and 14 more...
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Artificial Intelligence
Names for thinking machines and man-machine combinations in fiction and real life.
robot, bot, android, droid, mechanical man, mecha, automaton, replicant, cyborg, borg, bionic man, cybernetic organism and 10 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu How do you know you haven't met one already? Sep 30, 2011
hernesheir I'll wait to list this term until I meet one in person. Sep 30, 2011