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  • adjective not human. Opposite of human.

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  • adjective Not human. Not of the human race.
  • noun A creature or thing that is not human.

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  • adjective not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings

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Examples

  • Other experiments find the same numerical understanding in nonhuman primates, including macaques and tamarins, and in dogs.

    Is God an Accident? 2005

  • But, in nonhuman models where extensive experimental tools are available, there is cause for optimism that the contribution of regulatory sequences to evolution will be increasingly well understood in the near term.

    2005 July - Telic Thoughts 2005

  • Other experiments find the same numerical understanding in nonhuman primates, including macaques and tamarins, and in dogs.

    Is God an Accident? 2005

  • Research conducted in nonhuman primates shows male nonhuman primates are more susceptible to age-related cognitive decline.

    Science Press Release Synopses 2005

  • To all such assertions the correct response requires no strong proof of language or logic in nonhuman brains.

    Political Animals 2002

  • To all such assertions the correct response requires no strong proof of language or logic in nonhuman brains.

    Political Animals 2002

  • And once a nonhuman was a royal favorite, it would be much more difficult for other interests to get laws restricting the rights of nonhumans past the High King.

    The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • The Chinese may not have been allowed to own property, but they were never defined as nonhuman in the way in which blacks in the United States were defined during the period of slavery in the South, and that, I think, is a very big difference.

    Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation 1992

  • But he doesn't reveal what a splendid eye he has until he switches to some aerial shots of Sarah driving on a road that winds like a ribbon through a forest, a point of view that suggests that of an eagle - thereby introducing the idea of nonhuman perspectives - and underscores her isolation.

    NYT > Home Page By MANOHLA DARGIS 2011

  • A decision that the X-Men figures indeed do have 'nonhuman' characteristics further proves our characters have special, out-of-this world powers.

    Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #152 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

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