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n. - Any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge.

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  • Certainly in this zoophyte such appeared to be the case.
  • The box pulled out of the hatch, the sea-gods threw up the sponge, that zoophyte being handy.
  • We may consider the polypi in a zoophyte, or the buds in a tree, as cases where the division of the individual has not been completely effected.
  • In these actions we apparently behold as perfect a transmission of will in the zoophyte, though composed of thousands of distinct polypi, as in any single animal.
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