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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Organism \Or"gan*ism\, noun [Cf. F. organisme.]
1. Organic structure; organization. ''The advantageous organism of the eye.'' --Grew.
2. (Biol.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, composed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
Note: Some of the lower forms of life are so simple in structure as to be without organs, but are still called organisms, since they have different parts analogous in functions to the organs of higher plants and animals.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
organism
noun
1: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently [syn: {being}]
2: a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body; "the social organism"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "organism": aerobic organism, an existence, anaerobic organism, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, autotrophic organism, being, body, build, building, composition, conformation, constitution, construction, creation, creature, critter, entelechy, entity, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, frame, genetic individual, getup, heterotrophic organism, individual, life, living being, living thing, make, makeup, making, manufacture, microbe, microorganism, mold, molding, monad, morphological individual, object, ont, organic being, organic structure, organization, pattern, patterning, person, persona, personality, physiological individual, physique, plan, production, setup, shape, shaping, something, soul, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, thing, tissue, unit, virus, warp and woof, weave, web, zooid, zoon
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