organically
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Organically
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| 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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| —adj | |
| 1. | of, relating to, derived from, or characteristic of living plants and animals |
| 2. | of or relating to animal or plant constituents or products having a carbon basis |
| 3. | of or relating to one or more organs of an animal or plant |
| 4. | Compare inorganic of, relating to, or belonging to the class of chemical compounds that are formed from carbon: an organic compound |
| 5. | constitutional in the structure of something; fundamental; integral |
| 6. | of or characterized by the coordination of integral parts; organized |
| 7. | developing naturally: organic change through positive education |
| 8. | of or relating to the essential constitutional laws regulating the government of a state: organic law |
| 9. | of, relating to, or grown with the use of fertilizers or pesticides deriving from animal or vegetable matter, rather than from chemicals |
| —n | |
| 10. | any substance, such as a fertilizer or pesticide, that is derived from animal or vegetable matter |
| 11. | organic food collectively |
| or'ganically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
organically
1680s in reference to bodily organs; 1862 in reference to living beings; 1841 as "as part of an organized whole;" from organic.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Buying growth from outside, rather than generating it organically, may be the easiest option.
Our rights to honestly, organically grown food are being taken from us by the day.
Goodness knows, they're certainly not reading widely enough to acquire a large working vocabulary organically.
Neither willful nor contrived, it seems to emerge organically from the task it is meant to perform.
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