Pokémon

proper noun

1. 1

   A Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.

   The organization has also named three newly discovered, rare beetles after characters from Pokémon – the Japanese anime series that spawned an entire franchise of video games, toys and trading cards.

noun

1. 1

   A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.

   Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.

   He had been delighted when his mother said, Just leave everything as it is. Not even his bed was made. He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman^([sic]) poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.

   Professor Oak, the world's leading Pokémon expert, is at once a genius and a bumbling, absent-minded professor

   The beetles are named Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres and Binburrum zapdos after three rare Pokémon: Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos.

Forms

plural

Pokémons