Organisms

Definitions

The word "Organism" comes from the word "Organ" and the suffix "-ism". In biologic terms, "Organ" refers to a grouping of tissues into a distinct structure, as a heart or kidney in animals or a leaf or stamen in plants, that performs a specialized task, whereas "-ism" is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form action nouns from verbs. The term "Organism" itself has many different ways of being defined but is generally referred to as a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.

References

1."organism". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 18 Feb. 2018. <Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/browse/organism>.