organism
noun
a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
organisms
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pluralof organism.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If multiple bacterial pathogens are present, specialists should test all of the relevant organisms rather than focusing on just one.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Efforts to refine the lacklustre Cali Fund -- a UN mechanism for sharing profits from corporations that use genetic data from plants and other organisms -- have also proved difficult.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
They combined these measurements with other chemical markers left behind by organisms living in open water, allowing them to reconstruct Arctic ice conditions thousands of years in the past.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
"It requires a careful interweaving of data from modern organisms, of which our understanding is necessarily far deeper, and knowledge of these living organisms' genealogy relative to fossil forms," he said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
The transition to an oxidizing atmosphere posed a supreme crisis in the history of life, and a great many organisms, unable to cope with oxygen, perished.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
