centauroid

A centauroid body atop seven sharp-jointed legs, with a pair of jack-knife arms held curled and ready.

Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010

The F'thk visitors, led by Ambassador H'FFL, are taller than humans, scaled, and vaguely centauroid.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003

The long-extinct fossil species from Krulchuk serving as the prototype for the tall centauroid robots presented to humanity as interstellar emissaries: the F'thk.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2003

“The, ah, the Rowra is an old military felino-centauroid,” he explained hastily.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

There was a shy centauroid creature put together backward, with the humanlike part in the rear.

The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

A centauroid himself, he stretched four and a half meters on his four cloven hoofs, including the mighty tail.

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

Otherwise she spied a centauroid Donarrian; the shiny integuments of three Irumclagians; a couple of tailed, green-skinned Shalmuans; and-and-

The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

"The, ah, the Rowra is an old military felino-centauroid," he explained hastily.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983

One was nonhuman, a Donarrian centauroid, bigger than the armored men themselves; he bore an assortment of weapons on his otherwise nude frame, but had left them holstered in favor of a battleax.

The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972

A nuclear howitzer was mounted on the Donarrian's centauroid back, a man astride to fire it.

Agent Of The Terran Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1965