organisms

[OrĀ·gan*ism]

An organism is a living thing that can function on its own. That includes your pet guppy, the tree in your backyard, and of course you.

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Organic structure; organization.

Noun
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

Noun
a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism"


n.
Organic structure; organization.

n.
An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.


Organism

Or"gan*ism , n. [Cf. F. organisme.] 1. Organic structure; organization. "The advantageous organism of the eye." Grew. 2. (Biol.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual. &hand; Some of the lower forms of life are so simple in structure as to be without organs, but are still called organisms, since they have different parts analogous in functions to the organs of higher plants and animals.

Organic structure; organization.

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Usage Examples

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

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Other Usage Examples

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

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