HYPOTHETICAL CREATURE

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Meaning:

A creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("hypothetical creature" is a kind of...):

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypothetical creature"):

alien; extraterrestrial; extraterrestrial being (a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere)