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organism
[ awr-guh-niz-uhm ]
noun
- a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran.
the governmental organism.
- any complex thing or system having properties and functions determined not only by the properties and relations of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole.
Synonyms: , , ,
organism
/ ˈɔːɡəˌɪə /
noun
- any living biological entity, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium
- anything resembling a living creature in structure, behaviour, etc
organism
- An individual form of life that is capable of growing, metabolizing nutrients, and usually reproducing. Organisms can be unicellular or multicellular. They are scientifically divided into five different groups (called kingdoms) that include prokaryotes, protists, fungi, plants, and animals, and that are further subdivided based on common ancestry and homology of anatomic and molecular structures.
Derived Forms
- ˌǰˈ, adverb
- ˌǰˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ǰg·m ǰg·m adjective
- ǰg·m·· adverb
- p·ǰg· noun
Example Sentences
But it’s clear that value is not equally distributed among bird species, nor among other organisms across the tree of life.
But some animals, and a few other organisms, take the analogy one step further: apparently dead, they then, it seems, come back to life.
"Marine organisms rely on carbon to do certain things," he says.
A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.
The metals also accumulate in the tissues of animals exposed to them, and then make their way up the food chain as those organisms are eaten by larger ones.
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