Word Meanings - ORGANITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Organism.

ORGANISM
An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed 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
MICROORGANISM; MICRO-ORGANISM
Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
ENTORGANISM
An internal parasitic organism.
ECTORGANISM
An external parasitic organism.
PROTOORGANISM; PROTOOERGANISM
An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.