1) Invertebrate
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A zoophyte is an animal that visually resembles a plant. An example is a sea anemone. The name is obsolete in modern science. Zoophytes are common in medieval and renaissance era herbals, notable examples including the Tartar Lamb, a plant which grew sheep as fruit. Zoophytes appeared in many influential early medical texts, such as Dioscorides` ....
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plant-like animal such as coral
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• (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids. • (v. i.) Any o...
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<zoology> Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc, especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids. ... Any one of the Z...
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Zo'ö·phyte noun [ French
zoophyte , Greek ...;
zw^,on an animal + ... plant, akin to ... to be born, to be. See
Zodiac , and
Be ,
intransitive verb ]
(Zoology) (a) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more o...
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n] - any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge
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zoophyte, zoophytic Any of various invertebrate animals that resemble plants in morphology (form) or mode of life more than that of an animal; such as, the sea anemones, corals, sponges, etc. In context: Sponges are just barely animals. In fact, they are such a borderline case that until the nineteenth century they were called zoophytes, the anima...
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noun any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge
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any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant, as a coral or a sea anemone.
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