plant-animal

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

From plant + animal, after French plant-animal (obsolete), from post-classical Latin plantanimal (16th c.), after Hellenistic Ancient Greek ζωόφυτον ("zoophyte").

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