lycanthrope
Other forms: lycanthropes
You can use the noun lycanthrope as a fancy way to talk about a werewolf or wolfman, or any other kind of mythical human-wolf creature.
If your childhood babysitter liked to tell you bedtime tales about a lycanthrope, it means she was fond of werewolf stories. The Greek root word is lykanthropos, literally "wolf-man." In the late 1500s, a lycanthrope was a mentally ill person who believed that he was a wolf. Popular myths and stories of humans changing into wolves changed the meaning of lycanthrope to mean an actual monstrous creature.
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a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back againsynonyms: loup-garou, werewolf, wolfman
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