Meaning of plant-animal | Babel Free

Definitions

An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant.

archaic

Examples

“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.”

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