ORGAN'IC ,
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1. Pertaining to an organ or to organs; consisting of organs or containing them; as the organic structure of the human body or of plants.
2. Produced by the organs; as organic pleasure.
3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or art to a certain end; as organic arts.
4. Organic bodies, are such as possess organs, on the action of which depend their growth and perfection; as animals and plants.
1. Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.
2. Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.
3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
4. Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.
5. Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
Organic.
1. With organs; with organical structure or disposition of parts. The bodies of animals and plants are organically framed.
2. By means of organs.
In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally.
The state of being organical.
The quality or state of being organic.
The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ.
State Roget’s Thesaurus §7
N. state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, # mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character
V. be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state, labor under a state, be on a footing, do, fare, come to pass
Adv. conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case, relative
Texture Roget’s Thesaurus §329
N. structure (form) 240, organization, # anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness) 255, fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology
Organization Roget’s Thesaurus §357
N. organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, darwinism, neo-darwinism, lamarkism, neolamarkism, weismannism, morphology, taxonomy
Adj. organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid
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