Living animal or plant (8)
I believe the answer is:
organism
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">living animal or plant</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for organism that I've seen before include "Individual life form" , "Living thing -- man's giro (anag)" , "Body - cell - Mao grins (anag)" , "Something alive" , "Living animal or plant" .)