Organism

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Noun

Organism (plural Organisms)
  1. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
  2. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.

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Adjectives for Organism

finished; vital; political; alert; courageous aggressive; social; diverse (pi) ; vegetable precious; terrific; mysterious; living; active sensuous; enfeebled; specific; composite elaborate; molded; unicellular.

Verbs for Organism

constitute—; culture—; examine—; stain— study—; -—attacks; —excretes; —flourishes; —functions; —invades; —poisons; —reproduces.

Thesaurus

aerobic organism, an existence, anaerobic organism, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, autotrophic organism, being, body, build, building, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, creation, creature, critter, entelechy, entity, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, frame, genetic individual, getup, heterotrophic organism, individual, life, living being, living thing, make, makeup, making, manufacture, microbe, microorganism, mold, molding, monad, morphological individual, object, ont, organic being, organic structure, organization, pattern, patterning, person, persona, personality, physiological individual, physique, plan, production, setup, shape, shaping, something, soul, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, thing, tissue, unit, virus, warp and woof, weave, web, zooid, zoon

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Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈɔː.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈɔɹ.ɡən.ɪ.zəm/

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