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organism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | being |
| Type of | living thing, animate thing |
| Has types | clone, commensal, congenator, congener, congeneric, conspecific, creature, cross, crossbreed, denizen, diploid, dwarf, eucaryote, eukaryote, fauna, flora, fungus, haploid, heteroploid, heterotroph, host, hybrid, individual, katharobe, mascot, micro-organism, microorganism, mortal, mutant, mutation, myrmecophile, native, nekton, nonvascular organism, parasite, parent, person, plankton, plant, plant life, polymorph, polyploid, postdiluvian, procaryote, prokaryote, recombinant, relative, relict, aerobe, saprophyte, saprophytic organism, sitter, somebody, someone, soul, sport, stander, throwback, saprobe, amphidiploid, anaerobe, animal, animalcule, animalculum, animate being, atavist, beast, benthos, brute, carrier, clon, utterer, variation, vocaliser, vocalizer, zooid |
| Derivation | organic, organismic |
Examples of organism
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Unlike a movie, a TV show is a living organism, with storylines changing weekly.
From the online.wsj.com
They were left by what may have been the first mobile organism to live on Earth.
From the newscientist.com
For the Beebys, the home is a living, growing organism with its own personality.
From the ocregister.com
According to this idea, internal processes in the organism were the key factors.
From the sciencedaily.com
One lost job is a microscopic event in the massive organism of the U.S. economy.
From the time.com
This tells the organism how much time has passed since the clock was last reset.
From the jsonline.com
It's a beautiful object, like a perpetually spinning top, not a living organism.
From the time.com
The Freiburg researchers used thale cress as a model organism for their studies.
From the sciencedaily.com
The organism that causes it, Mycoplasma agassizii, was isolated seven years ago.
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- A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
- A system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism"
- (organismal) of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole); "the organismic theory of the state"
- In biology, an organism is any contiguous living system (such as animal, plant, fungus, or micro-organism). In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homoeostasis as a stable whole. ...
- Philosophy of Organism or Organic Realism is how Alfred North Whitehead described his metaphysics. It is now known as process philosophy.
- A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism; Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things
- (Organisms) Living things (animals or plants).
- (ORGANISMS) Plant or animal life. Usually refers to algae or bacteria like growth in pool water.
- (Organisms) living at or near the bottom of a body of water. Synonymous with epibenthic.
