Plantkin

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A very small plant.

    "In this remarkable disease, the ordinary precursor and companion of contagious typhus, he managed to find in the blood during an exacerbation, a minute plantkin, moving and swinging in very rapid vibration, the spirochaete which vanishes again along with the disease."

  2. 2
    A type of otherkin that identifies as a plant.

    "Some people were definitely fucking around: One blog, run by a "social justice warrior plantkin" who obsessively demands that their followers check their species privilege, was clearly a hoax."

Example

More examples

"In this remarkable disease, the ordinary precursor and companion of contagious typhus, he managed to find in the blood during an exacerbation, a minute plantkin, moving and swinging in very rapid vibration, the spirochaete which vanishes again along with the disease."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From plant + -kin.

Etymology 2

From plant + -kin, modeled on otherkin.

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