Certainly in this zoophyte such appeared to be the case. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
The box pulled out of the hatch, the sea-gods threw up the sponge, that zoophyte being handy. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
I will state one other instance of uniform action, though of a very different nature, in a zoophyte closely allied to Clytia, and therefore very simply organised. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
So through every scale, from the zoophyte to the warm-blooded whale, the sea teems with life, out of which fewer links have been dropped than from sub-aërial life. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
The medusæ are supposed to feel no pain even in being devoured, and the human zoophyte is, in like manner, comparatively out of the reach of every suffering but death. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
On Thalassicolla, a new zoophyte, in the "Annals of Natural History.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley]
The sermon was not exactly "Greek" to them, but it was all "zoophyte.". From Wordnik.com. [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference
Chance had thrown me just by the most precious specimens of the zoophyte. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
They consist of a cluster of rocks, formed by the zoophyte, or coral worm. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer] Reference
Plainly as this is seen in the worm, it is still more obvious in the zoophyte. From Wordnik.com. [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference
Bates was as strictly local in his ideas as the zoophyte which has clung all its life to one rock. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume II.] Reference
I will only mention one other animal, a zoophyte (I believe Virgularia Patagonica), a kind of sea-pen. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter V] Reference
But whatever improvement time has made in my health and nerves, it has made none in this wretched zoophyte village. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
How useful to the crab, then, to have its appearance cloaked by a growth of innocent seaweed, or sponge, or zoophyte. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
Every individual organism from the simple plant known as red snow to the oak, from the zoophyte to man is developed from such a cell. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Every point was occupied by some feathery tuft of lovely tints, while from each cleft projected the feelers of some sea-anemone or zoophyte. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference
It is held by some naturalists that the child is only a zoophyte, with a stomach, and feelers radiating from it in search of something to fill it. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The lead brought up an organic substance of so singular a structure that we were for a long time doubtful whether it was a zoophyte or a kind of seaweed. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
By experiments on transparent fish of the zoophyte class, and on the eyes of animals, we discovered the means of making a living body for a time transparent. From Wordnik.com. [Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah] Reference
Your highness must know that all the zoophyte, or animal plants, are composed of small insects, who work in millions under the water, until they rise to the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference
The shores are mostly fringed with coral reefs, often half a mile in width, composed of cemented coral fragments, shells, sand, and a growing species of zoophyte. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
I will state one other instance of uniform action, though of a very different nature, in a zoophyte closely allied to Clytia, and therefore very simply organized. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IX] Reference
A new zoophyte, in the "Annals of Natural History.". From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
I will only mention one other animal, a zoophyte (I believe. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
‘zoophyte’, and πολυθεϊσμος (Gell) for ‘polytheism’. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
"Yes, my dear, and we'll keep him for your aquarium; as well as some new sea-anemones and another zoophyte I see here, too. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
More) ‘zoophyte’; ‘enthousiasmos’ (Sylvester) ‘enthusiasm’; ‘phantasma’. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
And, "Do we meet once again?" said a zoophyte to a seaweed (a Corallina) in whose company he had been thrown ashore, – "Do we meet once again?. From Wordnik.com. [Parables From Nature] Reference
•feel that there are shades by whiph the works of creation graduaWjf resolve into each other, and which, by a slow operation, connect the zoophyte with the animated world. From Wordnik.com. [Sporting Magazine] Reference
It is ranked as a zoophyte. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Her virtue is "the virtue of the zoophyte.". From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
From the zoophyte small to the LORDS of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena] Reference
The fetus is in this stage is zoophyte.v. 66. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
Nor glass can reach -- from zoophyte to man. ". From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
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