organism

or·gan·ism  (ôrg-nzm)

n.

1. An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life.

2. A system regarded as analogous in its structure or functions to a living body: the social organism.

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organ·ismal (-nzml), organ·ismic (-mk) adj.

organ·ismi·cal·ly adv.

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organism

Noun

1. an animal or plant

2. anything resembling a living creature in structure, behaviour, or complexity: cities are more complicated organisms than farming villages

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organism  (ôrg-nzm)

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.

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organism

any animal or plant.

See also: Animals

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any living thing or anything that resembles a living thing in complexity of structure or function.

See also: Organisms

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	organism - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently being animate thing, living thing - a living (or once living) entity benthos - organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea dwarf - a plant or animal that is atypically small heterotroph - an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition parent - an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained cell - (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion native - indigenous plants and animals recombinant - a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred conspecific - an organism belonging to the same species as another organism carrier - (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring denizen - a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep" amphidiploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent diploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number haploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes heteroploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species polyploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes animalcule, animalculum - microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium micro-organism, microorganism - any organism of microscopic size aerobe - an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life anaerobe - an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live crossbreed, hybrid, cross - (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" polymorph - an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites congenator, congeneric, relative, congener - an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) plankton - the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water nekton - the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales parasite - an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host host - an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association commensal - either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent myrmecophile - an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant eucaryote, eukaryote - an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells procaryote, prokaryote - a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma zooid - one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity tissue - part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
	2.	organism - a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism" system, scheme - a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"

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organism

noun creature, being, thing, body, animal, structure, beast, entity, living thing, critter U.S. (dialect)

Translations

organism [ˈɔːgənɪzəm] n → organismo

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organism [ˈɔːgənɪzəm] organ n → organisme m

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organism [ˈɔːgənɪzəm] organ n → Organismus m

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organism [ˈɔːgənɪzəm] n → organismo