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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Vegeto-animal

· Veg·e·to-an·i·mal · IPA
01 a. Partaking of the nature both of vegetable and animal matter; -- a term sometimes applied to vegetable albumen and gluten, from their resemb…
  1. 1.
    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.(Biol.)