All 3 Uses of
placid
in
Oryx and Crake
- Placid.†
p. 51.8placid = calm and not easily excited
- But these new women are neither lopsided nor sad: they're placid, like animated statues.†
p. 100.7 *
- Crake had the kanga-lamb, a new Australian splice that combined the placid character and high-protein yield of the sheep with the kangaroo's resistance to disease and absence of methane producing, ozone-destroying flatulence Jimmy ordered the raisin-stuffed capon — real free-range capon, real sun-dried raisins, Crake assured him.†
p. 292.4