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- noun A strange form.
- noun geology An
allotriomorph .
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Examples
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RE: baby xenomorph -- In the event of symptoms of indigestion/acid reflux/hiatal hernia, one might believe a baby xenomorph is attempting to punch out of the torso.
intertribal: Better Know Some Midwestern Shit, Part 1 intertribal 2010
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The look of the alien or "xenomorph" in the first movie was designed by legendary horror master H.R. Giger, but it was essentially a person in a suit.
Livescience.com 2010
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And in Aliens, of course, the implacably vicious and ultra-relentless xenomorph.
William Bradley: T2 and Aliens Anniversaries Point Up the Problems With Today's Action Movies William Bradley 2011
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Does Prometheus revolve around some sort of three-way encounter between the space jockey race, humans and a nascent form of xenomorph?
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And in Aliens, of course, the implacably vicious and ultra-relentless xenomorph.
William Bradley: T2 and Aliens Anniversaries Point Up the Problems With Today's Action Movies William Bradley 2011
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But that thing looks KIND OF like a baby xenomorph.
intertribal: Better Know Some Midwestern Shit, Part 1 intertribal 2010
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Reading between the lines, I think you are calling Glenn Beck a xenomorph (and if you are, I think you are justified).
Think Progress » Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’ 2010
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Alternately, such a move might manage to pull off the previously impossible feat of topping the chestburster birthing scene from the first film – and all without a xenomorph in sight (thought they are bound to turn up at some point).
Will Ridley Scott's Alien prequel make a groundbreaking scene? Ben Child 2010
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A hoop of air shimmered, as molecules rammed into each other, delivering a near invisible punch to the target; on the ridgeline across the valley the xenomorph transmitter disintegrated.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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I'm thinking this could go two ways: we might get something akin to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's misjudged attempt to plunge the series into even weirder territory with all those messed up Ripleys and the half-xenomorph-half-human "newborn" in Alien: Resurrection.
Will Ridley Scott's Alien prequel make a groundbreaking scene? Ben Child 2010
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