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proto-organism

proto-organism is the alternative form of protoorganism.

Meaning of protoorganism

Noun

protoorganism (plural protoorganisms)

  1. An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
    • 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

Forms of proto-organism

pluralproto-organisms

Origin of proto-organism

From proto- + organism.

Questions about proto-organism

What is proto-organism the alternative form of?
Proto-organism is the alternative form of protoorganism.

Words near proto-organism in the dictionary

  1. Proto-Oceanic
  2. Proto-Omotic
  3. proto-oncogene
  4. proto-oncogenes
  5. proto-oncogenic
  6. proto-organism
  7. proto-organisms
  8. Proto-Pama-Nyungan
  9. Proto-Philippine
  10. proto-photon
  11. proto-photons

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