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zoophyte

/zoh-uh-fahyt/US // ˈzoʊ əˌfaɪt //UK // (ˈzəʊəˌfaɪt) //

藻类

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant, as a coral or a sea anemone.

Examples

  • I wish I was, like some worthy people I know, a mere human zoophyte, consisting of nothing but a mouth and a stomach.

  • The sermon was not exactly "Greek" to them, but it was all "zoophyte."

  • This Zoophyte twines itself parasitically upon a species of Sertularia.

  • Suffering has been the lot of all living things, from the giant of the primeval swamps down to the smallest zoophyte.

  • Androsaceus is from a Greek word which means an unidentified sea plant or zoophyte.