plantkin
plantkin noun: a very small plant.
Noun (1)
plantkin (plural plantkins)
- A very small plant.
- In this remarkable disease, the ordinary precursor and companion of contagious typhus, he managed to find in the blood during an exacerbation, a minute plantkin, moving and swinging in very rapid vibration, the spirochaete which vanishes again along with the disease.1879, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Infection-diseases in the Army
- Still more was I surprised through another occurrence of this same plantkin.1885, Publications of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society
Noun (2)
plantkin (plural plantkin)
- A type of otherkin that identifies as a plant.
- Some people were definitely fucking around: One blog, run by a "social justice warrior plantkin" who obsessively demands that their followers check their species privilege, was clearly a hoax.2016 August 4, Callie Beusman, “'I Look at a Cloud and I See It as Me': The People Who Identify As Objects”, in Broadly
- As a demisexual plantkin I can't stand how white privileged transgendered people are acting as if they're the vanguard of the trans movement.2015 September 4, Michelle Steiner, “Caitlyn Jenner on Ellen: Marriage equality views have evolved since transitioning”, in Entertainment Weekly
Forms of plantkin
| plural | plantkins |
|---|---|
| plural | plantkin |
Origin of plantkin
From plant + -kin.
From plant + -kin, modeled on otherkin.
Questions about plantkin
- What does plantkin mean?
- Plantkin means a very small plant.
- What part of speech is plantkin?
- Plantkin is a noun.
- What is the plural of plantkin?
- The plural of plantkin is plantkins.
Words near plantkin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: plantkin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “plantkin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plantkin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.