organism
A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
Other meanings
Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system.
The fact of being organic; organicity.
Synonyms
- being
Related words
- bioorganism
- biorg
- cyborg
- epiorganism
- macroorganism
- metaorganism
- multiorganism
- nonorganism
- orgone
- protoorganism
- superorganism
- supraorganism
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “organism” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.