planimal
planimal noun: something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.
Noun
planimal (plural planimals)
- Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.
- 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.1968, Alta: University of Birmingham Review - Issues 7-11, page 136
- 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.1970, New Scientist - Volume 47, page 649
Examples of planimal in a sentence
- 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.1979, Christiaan Barnard, The best medicine, page 58:
- That is our Syncytial Planimal, genetically engineered to give us both plant and animal proteins.2014, T. J. Bass, The Godwhale:
- The planimal was the first post-plant, followed by the versatile, Octopamine-blessed animant, and only then came the animals.2015, Anand Madhu, Brain Function and Dysfunction, page 26:
Forms of planimal
| plural | planimals |
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Origin of planimal
Blend of plant + animal.
Questions about planimal
- What does planimal mean?
- Planimal means something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.
- How do you use planimal in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is planimal?
- Planimal is a noun.
- What is the plural of planimal?
- The plural of planimal is planimals.
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