Zoophyte

Zoophyt is an obsolete term for an invertebrate animal that externally resembles a plant. Examples are sea anemone, sponge and coral. The term is no longer used in today's language of science.

Such creatures have often been cited as a typical example of the indeterminacy of the terms animal and plant, as in Friedrich Schleiermacher's dialectic (ed. Jonas, § 142 ), similar about the platypus that occurs in this function in a book title Umberto Eco.

• Zoology