Organism Definition

ôrgə-nĭzəm
organisms
noun
organisms
Any individual animal, plant, bacterium, etc. having various parts or systems that function together as a whole to maintain life and its activities.
Webster's New World
Anything resembling a living thing in its complexity of structure or functions.
Webster's New World

(biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.

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Other Word Forms of Organism

Noun

Singular:
organism
Plural:
organisms

Origin of Organism

  • From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (organon, “tool, instrument"), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“work").

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