A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone, French personne), and its source Latin persΕna, perhaps a loanword from Etruscan πππππ. Displaced native wight (from Old English wiht). parson, and persona.
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