Definitions for organism

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organism or·gan·ism

Spelling: [awr-guh-niz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈɔr gəˌnɪz əm/

Organism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 463 anagrams from letters in organism (agimnors).

Definitions for organism

noun

1. a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
2. a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran.
3. any organized body or system conceived of as analogous to a living being:
4. any complex thing or system having properties and functions determined not only by the properties and relations of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole.

Origin of organism

First recorded in 1655-65; organ + -ism

Examples for organism

He obeyed his instincts, permitting the will of his organism to lead him.

And those necessary steps tend to mean that the organism behaves as a unit.

During this period the organism undergoes the most singular metamorphoses.

Thus the organism modifies its surroundings, and is in turn modified by them.

This is not the only way of stimulating the organism, but it seems the most powerful.

Though they may be shorn of their glory, they retain their place in the organism of knowledge.

It decides to pounce on a prey, to hide in the grass, to take off and fly, so the organism does behave as a very unitary entity.

WGA is classified as a lectin—a term for a protein produced by an organism to protect itself from predation.

Gerwig: Sometimes we had that element of moving as one organism: the damsels.

They need to become streamlined: an organism that is basically very primitive.