 2 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
organs
noun: edible viscera of a butchered animal [syn: {variety meat}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Morphon \Mor"phon\, noun [Gr. ?, p. pr. of ? to form.] (Biol.)
A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of
form, in distinction from {bion}, a physiological individual.
See {Tectology}. --Haeckel.
Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1.
{Plastids} or elementary organisms. 2. {Organs},
homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. {Antimeres} (opposite
or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. {Metameres}
(successive or homodynamous parts). 5. {Person[ae]}
(shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest
sense among the higher animals). 6. {Corms} (stocks or
colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has
been recently substituted. See {Idorgan}.
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