plantkin

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noun

A very small plant.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

plantkin1

nounplantkin (plural plantkins)

plural plantkins

  1. A very small plant.

    Still more was I surprised through another occurrence of this same plantkin.

    1885, Publications of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society
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    In this remarkable disease, the ordinary precursor and companion of contagious typhus, he managed to find in the blood during an exacerbation, a minute plantkin, moving and swinging in very rapid vibration, the spirochaete which vanishes again along with the disease.

    1879, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Infection-diseases in the Army

plantkin2

nounplantkin (plural plantkin)
  1. A type of otherkin that identifies as a plant.

    No, sorry, but Jared is plantkin, though he's still searching to narrow it down.

    2017, Bryant A. Loney, Take Me to the Cat, →ISBN, page 190
    2 more examples

    Some people were definitely fucking around: One blog, run by a "social justice warrior plantkin" who obsessively demands that their followers check their species privilege, was clearly a hoax.

    2016 August 4, Callie Beusman, “'I Look at a Cloud and I See It as Me': The People Who Identify As Objects”, in Broadly

    As a demisexual plantkin I can't stand how white privileged transgendered people are acting as if they're the vanguard of the trans movement.

    2015 September 4, Michelle Steiner, “Caitlyn Jenner on Ellen: Marriage equality views have evolved since transitioning”, in Entertainment Weekly

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

plantkin · noun

From plant + -kin, modeled on otherkin.

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APA

plantkin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plantkin

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“plantkin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plantkin. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plantkin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plantkin.

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