- ORGANISM
- a structure instinct with life, and possessed of organs that discharge functions subordinate and ministrative to the life of the whole.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
ORGANISM
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organism — ORGANÍSM, organisme, s.n. 1. Totalitatea organelor şi a părţilor indisolubil legate între ele ale unei fiinţe vii; corp, fiinţă. 2. fig. Ceea ce apare ca un lot închegat; ceea ce funcţionează în mod organizat. ♦ Organizaţie (1). – Din lat.… … Dicționar Român
Organism — Or gan*ism, n. [Cf. F. organisme.] 1. Organic structure; organization. The advantageous organism of the eye. Grew. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, composed of different organs or parts with … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
organism — organism. См. организм. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
organism — index entity, individual Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
organism — (n.) 1660s, organic structure, organization, from ORGANIZE (Cf. organize) + ISM (Cf. ism). Sense of living animal or plant first recorded 1842. Related: Organismic … Etymology dictionary
organism — *system, scheme, network, complex, economy … New Dictionary of Synonyms
organism — [n] living thing animal, being, body, creature, entity, morphon, person, plant, structure; concepts 389,429 Ant. concept, inanimate … New thesaurus
organism — ► NOUN 1) an individual animal, plant, or single celled life form. 2) a whole with interdependent parts … English terms dictionary
organism — [ôr′gə niz΄əm] n. 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… … English World dictionary
Organism — life on Earth redirects here. For the BBC series, see Life on Earth (TV series). Life on Earth Temporal range: Archaean or earlier – Recent These Escherichia coli cells provide an example of a prokaryotic microorganism … Wikipedia
organism — by John Protevi An organism in the way that Deleuze and Guattari intend it is a centralised, hierarchised, self directed body. It is akin to the judgement of God (He who provides the model of such self sufficiency); it is also a molarised… … The Deleuze dictionary
