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I am having trouble flogging my brain into creating a word for a story I'm working on, and I thought I'd involve the hive-mind for help. :)
There may already be a word out there for it, but if possible I'm trying to avoid using words that are too closely associated with, say, Harry Potter or Dungeons and Dragons.
I need to be able to refer to animals and plants with magical properties or powers in general. Such as gryphons, salamanders (the kind that set fires, not the amphibians), cockatrices, etc. Or wolfsbane.
I could only come up with the extremely unwieldy "thaumatofauna" and "thaumatoflora." I think I can speak for everyone when I say: Pee-yew.
But I kind of like how plankton is divided into phytoplankton (plants) or zooplankton (animals). So I'd like the words to be something along those lines. phyto<something> and zoo<something>.
The other format of <something>fauna and <something>flora would be okay, too. But for some reason I am having a low-creativity day. :)
So, what say you, hive mind?
There may already be a word out there for it, but if possible I'm trying to avoid using words that are too closely associated with, say, Harry Potter or Dungeons and Dragons.
I need to be able to refer to animals and plants with magical properties or powers in general. Such as gryphons, salamanders (the kind that set fires, not the amphibians), cockatrices, etc. Or wolfsbane.
I could only come up with the extremely unwieldy "thaumatofauna" and "thaumatoflora." I think I can speak for everyone when I say: Pee-yew.
But I kind of like how plankton is divided into phytoplankton (plants) or zooplankton (animals). So I'd like the words to be something along those lines. phyto<something> and zoo<something>.
The other format of <something>fauna and <something>flora would be okay, too. But for some reason I am having a low-creativity day. :)
So, what say you, hive mind?
