English Explanatory Dictionary

plant-animal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

plant-animal plant-animals

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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