The paper discusses the cultural meaning of morphological structures of nineteenth-century Lán-lâng-ōe (a.k.a. Hokkien or Southern Min) words for animals and plants based on the dictionaries compiled by J. J. C. Francken and Gustaaf Schlegel. The paper divides the morphological structures of nineteenth-century Lán-lâng-ōe words for animals into those representing human beings, objects, and animals, and those for plants into categories symbolizing human beings, events, objects and plants. It then analyzes the quantitative data of the morphological structures of words for animals to discuss the possible cultural significance and characteristics of nineteenth-century Lán-lâng-ōe.