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The definition of an organism is a creature such as a plant, animal or a single-celled life form, or something that has interdependent parts and that is being compared to a living creature.

(noun)

An example of an organism is a dog, person or bacteria.
An example of an organism is one party in the political organism.

See organism in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

any individual animal, plant, bacterium, etc. having various parts or systems that function together as a whole to maintain life and its activities
anything resembling a living thing in its complexity of structure or functions

Related Forms:

organismic adjective or organismal
organismically adverb

See organism in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

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

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