zoophytishhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoophytish_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoophytish, adj.
Revised 2017

† zoophytishadjective

Obsolete. Biology.
  1. 1854–80
    Characteristic of or resembling a zoophyte.
    1. 1854
      When every marshy valley was the home of some human reptile or zoophytish monster.
      Chambers's Journal 28 October 280/1
    2. 1880
      The pure ‘Pickwick’ character, surrounded by metropolitan contentions would speedily lapse into mere zoophytish nonentity.
      J. C. Watt, Great Novelists 190

Originally published as part of the entry for zoophyte, n.

zoophyte, n. was revised in June 2017.