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Organic   /ɔrgˈænɪk/   Listen
Organic

adjective
1.
Relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis.  Antonym: inorganic.
2.
Being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms.  "Organic growth" , "Organic remains found in rock"  Antonym: inorganic.
3.
Involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs.  Antonym: functional.
4.
Of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones.  "Organic vegetables" , "Organic chicken"
5.
Simple and healthful and close to nature.
6.
Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup).  Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, constitutive.
noun
1.
A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter.  Synonyms: organic fertiliser, organic fertilizer.



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"Organic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Brion," she said. "But there's nothing, nothing at all. There are minor differences, organic changes I've never seen before—his liver is tremendous, for one thing. But changes like this are certainly consistent within the pattern of homo sapiens as adapted to a different planet. He's a man. Changed, adapted, modified—but ...
— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison
... All over the organic world we find tendencies toward degeneracy or downward; and we find everywhere aspirations ...
— How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions • S. S. Curry
... had unanimously voted for the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution abolishing slavery, and elected senators and representatives to Congress. Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, had declared the new amendment a part of the organic law of the Nation by ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... was established by the absence of any evidence of organic disease and by the history of the case. The relief of symptoms was brought about by means which I need not detail here, but which essentially consisted in proving to the patient that no true paralysis existed and in tricking ...
— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson
... the Archic Man, the "born ruler," is also the diplomatic man (cf., no doubt, Gladstone), a diplomacy based on organic economic ...
— Cyropaedia - The Education Of Cyrus • Xenophon


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