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plantkin en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From plant + -kin.

Meanings

  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:
    • 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:

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plantkin en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From plant + -kin, modeled on otherkin.

Meanings

  1. A type of otherkin that identifies as a plant.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:

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