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protoorganism

protoorganism noun: an organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.

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 protoorganism

pluralprotoorganisms
alternative formproto-organism

Origin of protoorganism

From proto- + organism.

Questions about protoorganism

What does protoorganism mean?
Protoorganism means an organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
What part of speech is protoorganism?
Protoorganism is a noun.
What is the plural of protoorganism?
The plural of protoorganism is protoorganisms.

Words near protoorganism in the dictionary

  1. protooncogene
  2. protooncogenes
  3. protooncogenic
  4. protooncoprotein
  5. protooncoproteins
  6. protoorganism
  7. protoorganisms
  8. protoorthodox
  9. protopanaxadiol
  10. protopanaxadiols
  11. protopanaxatriol

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