Organismic

[awr-guh-niz-uhm]

or·gan·ism

[awr-guh-niz-uhm]
noun
1.
a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
2.
a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran.
3.
any organized body or system conceived of as analogous to a living being: the governmental organism.
4.
any complex thing or system having properties and functions determined not only by the properties and relations of its individual parts, but by the character of the whole that they compose and by the relations of the parts to the whole.

Origin:
1655–65; organ + -ism

or·gan·is·mic, or·gan·is·mal, adjective
or·gan·is·mi·cal·ly, adverb
su·per·or·gan·ism, noun

organism, orgasm.


4. organization, network, entity, structure.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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organism (ˈɔːɡəˌnɪzəm)
 
n
1.  any living biological entity, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium
2.  anything resembling a living creature in structure, behaviour, etc
 
organ'ismal
 
adj
 
organ'ismic
 
adj
 
organ'ismally
 
adv

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