Plant-animal

From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […].

She had on her slide some special stuff come up from London that day […] she focussed the light on her field, and saw the plant-animal lying shadowy in a boundless light […].

There are some three hundred more of such plant-animals and collectively they represent a group called the Flagellates, which is neither plant nor animal, but intermediate.