protogen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fictional anthropomorphic (furry) cyborg with a robotic chest and thighs, and a visor screen upon which the creature's face is displayed.
Slang
noun
Example Sentences
- "JUMPING ON THE PROTOGEN BANDWAGON!!!! now I just need a name for this lil guy! if someone comes…"
- "*pulls in the protogen to wrap up in his wings* Do protos make cute little beeps when hugged? :D"
- "Fast forward a few years, and the whole family has adopted "fursonas," which they’re excited to show off at their first-ever Anthrocon. This weekend, Savannah will be a kangaroo named "Bubbles," Theresa will be a "sparkledog" named "Amethyst," Andrew will be a protogen — a computer-animal hybrid species — named "Jayden," and Carver, their son, will be a dragon named "Aiden Moonclaw.""
- "If you don't know what a protogen is do yourself a favor and look up some pictures of them right now—they're a really cool fusion of cute/fuzzy critter and technology!"
- "When it comes to furry avatars, the Protogen^([sic]) genre of avatars are by far the most popular… and with good reason too. They're slick in terms of their design, incredibly customizable, and have lots of facial features and body expressions that can be tailored for just about any player."
- "It is also said that in plants of the turnip tribe a substance occurs of the same complicated composition as the protogen of the brain, and that these elements split up naturally, in the same mauner as they do when decomposed artificially, and in both cases phosphoric acid, sugar, and nitrogenous substances like neurin and oxyneurin, result from the process."
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 primagen, hence the name.