presentient

"My program is more than a match for any presentient pussycat."

"Well then, how do you plan to adopt any presentient species you find here?

So far, we've identified twenty-seven sentient or presentient species they've wiped.

We of the presentient whiskers!

And solitude does not have the kind of deleterious psychological effects on us that it would on you; our presentient ancestors were solitary animals.

Riker returned his attention to the viewscreen, where the class-M planet with its three presentient species still hung in the void.

"There is no way, no possibility, no chance that thisworld could have hidden upon it a presentient survivor ofthe Bururalli!

The river steals up minerals from the surrounding stone, feeding a few patient microbes, while some presentient machines turn parasitic, milking power from the occasional light.

Some are impressed by Ro-kenn's wit, others by the implied compliment-that the Rothen would wish to adopt any presentient races that we Six might become.

According to its last survey, it boasted no less than three presentient species, each one the master of a different continent, each one more or less on an evolutionary par with the other two.

Reproduction in their presentient days had been a haphazard and frightful business-a given male fertilizing as many females as he could before being devoured by one of them hi the nuptial act.

She goes on to jab "those red-state value voters" who are "really, really supportive of the rights of a globule of presentient cells" but whose state laws permitted capital punishment for juveniles.

That instinct response might have made sense long ago, when presentient qheuens fought their battles claw to claw in seaside marshes, on the distant planet where their patrons later found and uplifted them.