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plant-animals

plant-animals is the plural of plant-animal.

Meaning of plant-animal

Noun

plant-animal (plural plant-animals)

  1. (archaic) An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant.
    • From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […].1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXII

Questions about plant-animals

What is plant-animals the plural of?
Plant-animals is the plural of plant-animal.

Words near plant-animals in the dictionary

  1. plant sitted
  2. plant sitting
  3. plant teacher
  4. plant teachers
  5. plant-animal
  6. plant-animals
  7. plant-based
  8. plant-cane
  9. plant-canes
  10. plant-eater
  11. plant-eaters

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