Planimal

Quick meaning: Planimal is a noun meaning Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.

Meaning

Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• planimals

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plant-animal, zoophyte, plantkin, planthood, phytozoan, pleomorph.

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