Zoophyte

[zәuәfait]

Definition

(noun.) any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge.

Editor: Rae--From WordNet

Definition

(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 one of the Zoophyta.

Editor: Lois

Definition

n. a term employed by Cuvier in his earlier attempts at classification to designate numerous simple animals sedentary in habit often with a superficial resemblance to plants—now restricted to hydroid colonies.—adjs. Zoophyt′ic -al; Zoé°Œh′ytoid; Zoophytolog′ical.—ns. Zoophytol′ogist; Zoophytol′ogy; Zoé°Œh′yton:—pl. Zoé°Œh′yta.

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