plant-animal

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant. archaic
    — From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […].

词形变化

plant-animals plural

词源

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