Plantkin
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 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."
Synonyms
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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
From plant + -kin.
From plant + -kin, modeled on otherkin.
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