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Webster 1913 Edition


Protoorganism

Proˊto-ör′gan-ism

,
Noun.
[
Proto-
+
organism
.]
(Biol.)
An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.

Definition 2024


protoorganism

protoorganism

See also: proto-organism

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Noun

protoorganism (plural protoorganisms)

  1. (biology) An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
    • 2013, Geoffrey Eglinton, ‎Mary Teresa Joseph Murphy, Organic Geochemistry: Methods and Results
      This tree represents a complex “phylogeny” of macromolecules all within one ancestral lineage, before the proto-organism.