Vegeto-animal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vegeto-animal \Veg"e*to-an"i*mal\, a. (Biol.)
     Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter;
     -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten,
     from their resemblance to similar animal products.
     [1913 Webster]