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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(now rare) An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant..
From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […].
She had on her slide some special stuff come up from London that day […] she focussed the light on her field, and saw the plant-animal lying shadowy in a boundless light […].
There are some three hundred more of such plant-animals and collectively they represent a group called the Flagellates, which is neither plant nor animal, but intermediate.
Use plant-animal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Plant-animal means (now rare) An organism having characteristics of both plants and animals; a zoophyte, later chiefly an animal with structural resemblances to a plant..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
From which Description, they [sponges] seem to be a kind of Plant-Animal that adheres to a Rock […].
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