zoophyte

American  

[zoh-uh-fahyt] / ˈzoʊ əˌfaɪt /

noun

1. any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant, as a coral or a sea anemone.

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zoophyte British  

/ ˈzəʊəˌfaɪt /

noun

1. any animal resembling a plant, such as a sea anemone

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Other Word Forms

• zoophytic
  adjective
• zoophytical
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of zoophyte

1615–25; < New Latin zōophyton < Greek zōióphyton. See zoo-, -phyte

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Example Sentences

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zoophyte

Certainly in this zoophyte such appeared to be the case.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Yes, my dear, and we’ll keep him for your aquarium; as well as some new sea-anemones and another zoophyte I see here, too.

From Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel by John B. Greene

Every individual organism from the simple plant known as red snow to the oak, from the zoophyte to man is developed from such a cell.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

So through every scale, from the zoophyte to the warm-blooded whale, the sea teems with life, out of which fewer links have been dropped than from sub-aërial life.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

How useful to the crab, then, to have its appearance cloaked by a growth of innocent seaweed, or sponge, or zoophyte.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

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