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An organism is any living thing — a plant, an animal, a person, a bacterium, anything alive and made of parts that work together to keep it alive. It's a science word, common in biology class, but people also use it loosely to talk about any complex system that behaves like it's alive, such as 'a city is like a living organism.'
生物、有機體
組成organ + -ism (a state or system)
同家族的字
- organshares the root — an organism is built from organs (or organ-like parts) working together
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
organismnoun/ˈɔː.ɡə.nɪ.zəm/
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biologynatural-sciencesA discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related ailments.
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Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system.
- For the first time, Edith was aware of the hotel as a well populated organism, its attendants merely resting until an appropriate occasion should summon them to present themselves […].
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obsoleterareThe fact of being organic; organicity.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。