yegemot

You see, McCoy, the yegemot are actually descended from domestic animals that our ancestors bred to human shape ages ago.

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When you first told me that cockeyed theory about the yegemot being bred up from domestic animals, I went right out and collected tissue samples from various corpses, victims of the bombardments, both yegemot and your own kind.

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Has it ever happened that a yegemot has, um, mated with a human and produced young?

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Just feast your eyes on that row of healthy, young yegemot.

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"Then a … yegemot may achieve as high a level of competence in some field or profession as possible and still not be accepted as one of you?"

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Even the yegemot, whose defiance had already diminished as their numbers dwindled at Sealon hands, became quiet, waiting uncertainly for the next move from the deadly invader hidden beneath the seas.

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One of them—Pellison, the best of the lot—said, "Sir, Dr. McCoy, it's only a yegemot."

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I suppose I—we—would be willing to accept a small degree of participation in the government by the yegemot, since we seem to have little choice, were it not for one insurmountable difficulty.

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Such children are considered to be yegemot themselves.

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Unfortunately, that sort of biological skill has been long lost to us, but fortunately the yegemot breed true.

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