# plant-animal

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant.

## Etymology
From plant + animal, after French plant-animal (obsolete), from New Latin plantanimal (16th c.), after Hellenistic Ancient Greek ζωόφυτον (zōóphuton, “zoophyte”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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