zoophyte
Americannoun
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Origin of zoophyte
1615–25; < New Latin zōophyton < Greek zōióphyton. See zoo-, -phyte
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This was not compassion that the ecstacies with which a zoophyte was discovered, or the glad cries with which a bit of sundew was hailed, must be such transient joys.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
Certainly in this zoophyte such appeared to be the case.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The name zoophyte comes from two Greek words—zoön, an animal, and phyton, a plant—and therefore has the literal signification of animal-plant.
From Harper's Young People, April 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
In one zoophyte the head itself was fixed, but the lower jaw free: in another it was replaced by a triangular hood, with beautifully-fitted trap-door, which evidently answered to the lower mandible.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Its splendour glows and its influence grows As Nature's slow work appears, From the zoophyte small to the Lords of all, Through kalpas and crores of years.
From The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena by C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater
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