humanoid

[ hyoo-muh-noid or, often, yoo- ]

/ ˈhyu məˌnɔɪd or, often, ˈyu- /

having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.

a humanoid being: to search for humanoids in outer space.

Origin of humanoid

First recorded in 1915–20; human + -oid

There weren't a quarter of that number in the fleet of any world, humanoid or alien!

Victory |Lester del Rey
It must be a humanoid type from some world out among the stars.

The Secret of the Ninth Planet |Donald Allen Wollheim
Or are we, despite our humanoid forms, condemned forever to be alien and apart?

The World That Couldn't Be |Clifford Donald Simak
She was an animal—a beast—a humanoid—near human but not near enough.

The Lani People |J. F. Bone

Behind him sounded the steps of a humanoid serving robot, hastening to pick it up.

Manners of the Age |Horace Brown Fyfe

humanoid

/ (ˈhjuːməˌnɔɪd) /

like a human being in appearance

a being with human rather than anthropoid characteristics

(in science fiction) a robot or creature resembling a human being