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A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney.

The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.

To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).

One who disorganizes or causes disorder and confusion.

An external parasitic organism.

An internal parasitic organism.

A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

Same as Homoplast.

Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic. Sir W. Hamilton.

sess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances.

Inorganic. Locke.

In an inorganic manner.

Quality of being inorganic. [Obs.] "The inorganity of the soul." Sir T. Browne.

The state of being without organization.

Not having organic structure; devoid of organs; inorganic.

Organization in part. [R.]

Metalorganic.

ining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc. [Written also metallorganic.]