organism : Idioms & Phrases

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autotrophic organism

  • noun plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
    autophytic plant; autophyte; autotroph.
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micro-organism

  • noun any organism of microscopic size
    microorganism.
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nonvascular organism

  • noun organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses
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pleuropneumonialike organism

  • noun a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
    PPLO.
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saprophytic organism

  • noun an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium
    saprophyte.
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Zymogenic organism

  • (Biol.), a microörganism, such as the yeast plant of the Bacterium lactis, which sets up certain fermentative processes by which definite chemical products are formed; distinguished from a pathogenic organism. Cf. Micrococcus.
Webster 1913