zoophyte
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of zoophyte
1615–25; < New Latin zōophyton < Greek zōióphyton. See zoo-, -phyte
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Example Sentences
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Chance had thrown me just by the most precious specimens of the zoophyte.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
In only a year afterwards—as an example of the progress which a resolute woman can make—she was familiar with zoophyte fossils, and had succeeded in dissecting the nervous system of a bee.
From Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time by Collins, Wilkie
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 Thomson, J. Arthur
Certainly in this zoophyte such appeared to be the case.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
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
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