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protogen

The English word “protogen” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A fictional anthropomorphic (furry) cyborg with a robotic chest and thighs, and a visor screen upon which the creature's face is displayed.

Etymology

From proto- (“an early, primitive stage of development”) + primagen (“a furry cyborg character with a raptor-like body and fully robotic legs”). Coined by Fur Affinity user Cedar "Malice-risu" Andrews in April 2017 as an open-source fursona species (an open species), in contrast to her copyrighted, more mechanical primagen species; in fiction, protogen are canonically the predecessor species to…

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