Plant-animal
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant. archaic
"From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […]."
Example
More examples"From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […]."
Etymology
From plant + animal, after French plant-animal (obsolete), from New Latin plantanimal (16th c.), after Hellenistic Ancient Greek ζωόφυτον (zōóphuton, “zoophyte”).
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