Phȳ'to-zō'on or Phȳ'tōz'o-on, n.

n.; pl. PHY-TO-ZO'A, or PHY-TŌZ'O-A. [Gr. φυτὸν, plant, and ζῶον, animal, from ζῶος, alive, from ζάειν, to live.] A plant-animal;—a term sometimes applied to zoophytes; also to certain marine animalcules living in the tissues of plants. Dana.