Usually means: Living entity with biological processes.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word organism:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. organism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. organism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. organism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. organism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. organism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Organism, organism: Wordnik
  7. organism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. organism: Wiktionary
  9. organism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. organism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. organism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. organism: Dictionary.com
  13. organism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. organism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Organism, The Organism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Organism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. organism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. organism: Rhymezone
  19. organism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. organism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. organism: Free Dictionary
  22. organism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. organism: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORGANISM: Band Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. organism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. organism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. organism: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. organism: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  4. organism: Evolution Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. organism: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See organismal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete, rare) The fact of being organic; organicity.
noun:  Something with many separate interdependent parts, seen as being like a living thing; an organic system.
noun:  (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.

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