Organism Definition

ôrgə-nĭzəm
organisms
noun
organisms
Any individual animal, plant, bacterium, etc. having various parts or systems that function together as a whole to maintain life and its activities.
Webster's New World
Anything resembling a living thing in its complexity of structure or functions.
Webster's New World

(biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.

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Other Word Forms of Organism

Noun

Singular:
organism
Plural:
organisms

Origin of Organism

  • From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (organon, “tool, instrument"), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work").

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Organism Sentence Examples

  • The organism is made up of molecules which are analogous to them.

  • The cell-walls of plants render the entry of solid material into the organism impossible.

  • Any organism may pass through a series of free-living larval stages.

  • Every organism takes origin from a parent organism of the same kind.

  • An organism was to him something controlled by a formative organizing principle.

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Words Starting With

OORORG

Words Ending With

MSMISM

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Words Starting With O and Ending With M

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With O8 Letter Words Ending With M