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organismal

American  
[awr-guh-niz-muhl] / ˌɔr gəˈnɪz məl /

adjective

  1. relating to or characteristic of organisms.


Other Word Forms

  • interorganismal adjective
  • multi-organismal adjective
  • organismality noun
  • suborganismal adjective
  • superorganismal adjective

Example Sentences

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As such, this enterprise could reveal the underlying rules-based nature of organismal construction and diversification.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

And this is like these are the vegetables that organismal biological science has to eat that may not have immediate, honestly, won't have immediate, sexy results.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

The goal of the report card “is to reinvigorate the species and the organismal part of conservation,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

“Genome size doesn’t correlate tightly with anatomical or organismal complexity,” she says.

From Science Magazine • May 31, 2024

But for necessary reasons, as we shall see, the understanding of organismal development emerged like a film run in reverse.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee