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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
English
Alternative forms
Noun
protoorganism (plural protoorganisms)
- (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.
- 2013, Geoffrey Eglinton, Mary Teresa Joseph Murphy, Organic Geochemistry: Methods and Results