"planimal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of plant + animal",
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          "ref": "1968, Alta: University of Birmingham Review - Issues 7-11, page 136",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1970, New Scientist - Volume 47, page 649",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1979, Christiaan Barnard, The best medicine, page 58",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2014, T. J. Bass, The Godwhale",
          "text": "That is our Syncytial Planimal, genetically engineered to give us both plant and animal proteins.",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Anand Madhu, Brain Function and Dysfunction, page 26",
          "text": "The planimal was the first post-plant, followed by the versatile, Octopamine-blessed animant, and only then came the animals.",
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        "Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals."
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  "etymology_text": "Blend of plant + animal",
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          "ref": "1968, Alta: University of Birmingham Review - Issues 7-11, page 136",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1970, New Scientist - Volume 47, page 649",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1979, Christiaan Barnard, The best medicine, page 58",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, T. J. Bass, The Godwhale",
          "text": "That is our Syncytial Planimal, genetically engineered to give us both plant and animal proteins.",
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        },
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