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organism definition

or·gan·ism (ôr′gə niz′əm)

noun

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

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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