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Animal + Plant (Posted on 2005-04-09)

"Monkey" is an animal. "Fern" is a plant. Unfortunately, "monkeyfern" is not an English word.

Find a more suitable animal and plant for the job.

See The Solution Submitted by David Shin

Rating: 3.3333 (3 votes)

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Close but not exactly

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Neither of these is perfect

dogwood: wood is from a plant but not really the name of a plant

mangrove, cowberry: same problem

catbrier, catmint: maybe but uncommon words

Edited on April 9, 2005, 5:46 pm

Edited on April 9, 2005, 5:58 pm

Posted by Larry on 2005-04-09 17:44:05

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