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organism
organism An organism is a living being, or more broadly a whole whose parts are connected and ordered by an internal principle arising from the whole itself rather than by an outside arrangement.
An organism is a living being, or more broadly a whole whose parts are connected and ordered by an internal principle arising from the whole itself rather than by an outside arrangement. In historical and philosophical use, it can mean any system understood as an internally organized unity.