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or·gan·ism
(ôr′gə-nĭz′əm)n.
1. An individual form of life, such as a bacterium, protist, fungus, plant, or animal, composed of a single cell or a complex of cells in which organelles or organs work together to carry out the various processes of life.
2. A system regarded as analogous in its structure or functions to a living body: the social organism.
or′gan·is′mal (-nĭz′məl), or′gan·is′mic (-mĭk) adj.
or′gan·is′mi·cal·ly adv.
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organism
(ˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm)n
1. (Biology) any living biological entity, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium
2. anything resembling a living creature in structure, behaviour, etc
ˌorganˈismal, ˌorganˈismic adj
ˌorganˈismally adv
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or•gan•ism
(ˈɔr gəˌnɪz əm)n.
1. any individual life form considered as an entity.
2. any complex, organized body or system analogous to a living being, esp. one composed of mutually interdependent parts functioning together.
[1655–65]
or`gan•is′mic, or`gan•is′mal, adj.
or`gan•is′mi•cal•ly, adv.
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or·gan·ism
(ôr′gə-nĭz′əm) An individual form of life, such as a bacterium, fungus, plant, or animal, that is capable of growing and reproducing. Organisms are composed of one or more cells.
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organism
- cultivar - An organism resulting from cultivation, from the combination of "cultivated variety."
- scientific name - The recognized Latin name given to an organism, consisting of a genus and species, according to a taxonomy; also called the binomial name.
- soma - The body of an organism.
- macronutrient - One required in relatively large amounts by organisms, e.g. carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.
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organism
any animal or plant.
See also: Animalsany living thing or anything that resembles a living thing in complexity of structure or function.
See also: Organisms-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
organism
An individual living thing.
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| Noun | 1. |  organism - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independentlyanimate 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 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 microorganism, micro-organism - 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 fertilized ovum, zygote - (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell) parthenote - a cell resulting from parthenogenesis organic chemistry - the chemistry of compounds containing carbon (originally defined as the chemistry of substances produced by living organisms but now extended to substances synthesized artificially) |
| 2. | organism - a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism" |
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organism
noun creature, being, thing, body, animal, structure, beast, entity, living thing, critter (U.S. dialect) Not all chemicals present in living organisms are harmless.
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Translations
كائِن حَيكَائِنٌ حَيٌّ
organismusorganizmus
organismeorganism
organismieliö
organizam
organizmus
lífvera
有機体
유기체
gyva būtybėorganizmas
organisms
organism
organism
สิ่งมีชีวิตเช่นพืชและสัตว์
organizmacanlı varlık
sinh vật
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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organism
n (Biol, fig) → Organismus m
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organism
(ˈoːgənizəm) noun a usually small living animal or plant. A pond is full of organisms.
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organism
→ كَائِنٌ حَيٌّ organismus organism Organismus οργανισμός organismo organismi organisme organizam organismo 有機体 유기체 organisme organisme organizm organismo организм organism สิ่งมีชีวิตเช่นพืชและสัตว์ organizma sinh vật 生物体Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
or·ga·nism
n. organismo, ser viviente.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
organism
n organismo; genetically modified — (GMO) organismo genéticamente modificado (OGM) or modificado genéticamente (OMG)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.