zoophyticalhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoophytical_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoophytical, adj.
Revised 2017

zoophyticaladjective

Biology. Now historical.
  1. 1779–
    Characteristic of or resembling a zoophyte; relating to zoophytes.
    Stressed as zooˈphytical.
    1. 1779
      The motion of the sensitive plant, or the orbicular whirling observed in some of the zoophytical race.
      J. Berington, Immaterialism Delineated 149
    2. 1850
      Many of the zoophytical and molluscous orders..are also employed in devouring and affording food to various other animals.
      H. T. Cheever, Whale & his Captors iv. 72
    3. 2009
      In reproducing by division, polypi manifest their vegetal nature—but in their instinct for self-preservation, they are like animals. Anything with such a double nature is ‘zoophytical’.
      Victorian Poetry vol. 47 10

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

zoophyte, n. was revised in June 2017.