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plant-ˈanimal Now rare.
[a. early mod.L. plantanimal, invented by Budé (Budæus, 1508 in Annot. in Pandectas) to render Gr. ζωόϕυτον. Cf. G. pflanzenthier.]
1. A zoophyte or ‘animal plant’.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 134 Though plant animalls doe multiply, they doe it not by copulation, but in a way analogous unto plants. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 188 In Elements there are five kinds of mixt bodies, viz. Stones, Metals, Plants, Plant-Animals, Animals. [a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. ii. 47 Animals..that are almost in the nature of Plants, called Zoophyta or Plant animalia.] 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 87 A Zoophyte, that is, a Plant-Animal. 1853Zoologist II. 4054 The plant-animals of the sea are revealed to us in all their loveliness. 1879tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man I. viii. 196 Plant animals (Zoophyta).
†2. A plant-like animal growth. Obs. nonce-use.
1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 346 Hartshorn..grow's to a considerable bulk like a Vegetable, and is (unlike most other Hornes of Animals) at certain set Periods of time, deciduous..this Plant-Animal (if I may so call it) does [etc.].
†3. fig. A dull, inert, or stupid person. Obs.
1673S'too him Bayes 40, I suppose Trans does not think himself a plant-animal. 1687M. Clifford Notes Dryden i. 4 If thou art not the dullest Plant-Animal that ever the Earth produced, all [etc.]. 1706Hearne Collect. 25 Oct. (O.H.S.) I. 298 He being but a degree from a Natural, and upon yt Account..stiled the Plant Animal. |