Meaning of planimal | Babel Free

Definitions

Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.

Examples

“Such a 'planimal' could move⟳ itself over the ground only at a rate considerably slower than that of a terrestrial slug but if other plants could not move⟳ at all, this would be sufficient.”

“This week my planimal friend Daedalus continues his exploration of human symbiosis with useful organisms. Those green flatworms, permeated with photosynthesizing algae, represent⟳ a distinct advance on his plumbed-in photosynthetic sandwich-boards of last⟳ weak.”

“Overseas scientists have⟳ taken an animal cell and crossed it with a cell from a tobacco plant⟳ to produce⟳ a half-animal, half-plant creature known as a planimal.”

“That is our Syncytial Planimal, genetically engineered to give⟳ us both plant⟳ and animal proteins.”

“The planimal was the first post-plant, followed by the versatile, Octopamine-blessed animant, and only then came the animals.”

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