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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
organism/ˈɔːɡənɪzəm/
▶noun an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
■ a whole with interdependent parts, compared to a living being.
– derivatives
organismal adjective,
organismic adjective.
organismal adjective,
organismic adjective.
– origin C18 (in the sense ‘organization’): current senses derive from Fr. organisme.
'organism' also found in these Oxford entries:
abort
- abortive
- adaptation
- adaptationism
- aerobe
- allelochemical
- anaerobe
- anatomy
- animal
- antioxidant
- apoptosis
- appendage
- autoantibody
- autotoxin
- autotroph
- auxotroph
- backcross
- binomial
- bioindicator
- biological clock
- biology
- biomorph
- biorhythm
- biosensor
- bud
- carrier
- cell
- chemotaxis
- chimera
- clone
- commensal
- contagion
- corpuscle
- cryptobiont
- cyborg
- cyst
- cystic
- determinant
- deuterostome
- diapause
- dinoflagellate
- dorsum
- ecad
- egg
- engineer
- ensheath
- entelechy
- enzyme
- euglena
- eukaryote
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