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ions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

Organic. The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move. Bentley.

In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.

The quality or state of being organic.

The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

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

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.

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.]

Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.

Vital; as, teleorganic functions.

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot.

An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum. Eng. Cyc.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton.

ous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.