Definition of Hypothetical creature

1. Noun. A creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypothetical Creature

hypothermic anaesthesia
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hypothesises
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hypothesize
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hypothesizers
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hypothetical
hypothetical creature (current term)
hypothetical imperative
hypothetical mean organism
hypothetical mean strain
hypothetical taxonomic unit
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hypothetist
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hypothrombinaemia
hypothrombinemia
hypothromboplastinaemia
hypothymia
hypothymic

Literary usage of Hypothetical creature

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"... or " ape-man," a purely hypothetical creature of Haeckel's creation, unknown and untraceable on this earth, but further its genealogy — as invented by ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"... of the Insects," shows by means of a " genealogical tree" the descent of the class from the Thysanura, with some hypothetical creature not unlike Sco- ..."

3. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"This hypothetical creature would represent, it was held, the common ancestor of the two great " strains" or " stocks" one of which in the course of gradual ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Such a hypothetical creature would be harmless, indeed might have a certain usefulness, could it be presented merely as one among numerous possibilities, ..."

5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"... to Mr. Fawcett upon the preservation of the monad of a man,—a very precarious immortality, indeed, for this monad is a very hypothetical creature. ..."

6. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"Of a hypothetical creature, not wholly brute, but not yet 'articulate-speaking man,' we know nothing, and as to the ways of his supposed next of kin, ..."

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