planimal

plural planimals

1. Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.

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

   2014, T. J. Bass, The Godwhale

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   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

   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

   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