zoophyte

In complexity, our large civilized nations as much exceed primitive savage tribes, as a vertebrate animal does a zoophyte.

The little species use the leaves and stems of water-plants; the larger species use seaweed and zoophyte.

I suppose in this dark cave, where neither seaweed nor zoophyte exists, there is no such thing.

Z is a Zoophyte, whose heart's in his head,And whose head's in his turn—rudimentary Z!