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Meanings of non-human in English

Russian
нечеловек
Portuguese
não-humano
Spanish
no humano

Creature displaying some, but not enough, human characteristics to be considered a human.

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        нечеловек
        Usage of non-human in English
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        It's been a rough year for space travel-atleast non-human space travel.
        Wired
        2
        And we don't really know what love in a non-human fashion means.
        Wired
        3
        However, efforts to find parallel effects in non-human primates were surprisingly unsuccessful.
        Pubmed
        4
        However, this kind of technique has not been reported in non-human primates.
        Pubmed
        5
        Furthermore, safety has been demonstrated after perinatal administration mice and non-human primates.
        Pubmed
        6
        At these non-human hours they could get quite close to the waterfowl.
        Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
        7
        Some of them, as already suggested, are man's heritage from non-human ancestors.
        A History of Science — Volume 1
        8
        As a result, current knowledge of NCC biology derives primarily from non-human organisms.
        Pubmed
        9
        For example, it didn't include games that featured non-human characters and first-person titles.
        Wired
        10
        Three years ago, IBM's Watson supercomputer became the first non-human to win Jeopardy.
        Wired
        11
        And no non-human animal has ever been observed using an idiom.
        I'm not hanging noodles on your ears and other intriguing idioms...
        12
        All I have to do is decipher the thinking of a non-human intelligence.
        The Gods Themselves
        13
        There was a low, hushed, non-human-sounding murmur, coming from the barracks.
        The Young Lions
        14
        The other is the erasure of non-human life from the land by farming.
        The Guardian
        15
        A vast array of non-human life, darkly self-sufficient, and bristling with indomitable energy.
        Fantasia of the Unconscious
        16
        We evolved in a world full of non-human hominids, other kinds of mind.
        Futures 1
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        Translations for non-human
        Spanish
        no humano
        Non-human through the time
        Non-human across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common