τερατώδης

A. portentous, prodigious, Ar. Nu. 364; σοφία τ. X. Ep. 1; also of men, τ. εἰς σοφίαν Pl. Euthd. 296e; τὸ τερατῶδες Arist. Po. 1453b9; τ. ἀναπλασμοί Metrod. Herc. 831.5, cf. Jul. Or. 7.206c.

II. monstrous, of strange births (τέρας 11.2), Arist. GA 772a36, al., Sor. 2.55; τὰ τ. Phld. Sign. 7; τ. ζῴδια, viz. Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio, Capricorn, Cat.Cod.Astr. 1.166: Sup., ‐ωδεστάτη ὄψις Ph. 2.99, cf. Phld. Mort. 38. Adv. ‐δῶς, opp. κατὰ φύσιν, Arist. HA 496b18, cf. D.S. 1.26.