planimal

noun

Etymology

Blend of plant + animal.

  1. derived from animal
  2. derived from animal
  3. inherited from animal
  4. compounded as planimal — “plant + animal

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for planimal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA