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Organic   /ɔrgˈænɪk/   Listen
Organic

adjective
1.
Relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis.
2.
Being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms.  "Organic growth" , "Organic remains found in rock"
3.
Involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs.
4.
Of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones.  "Organic vegetables" , "Organic chicken"
5.
Simple and healthful and close to nature.
6.
Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup).  Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, constitutive.
noun
1.
A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter.  Synonyms: organic fertiliser, organic fertilizer.



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"Organic" Quotes from Famous Books



... hazarded the speculation that the origin of life on this planet has been the falling upon it of the fragments of a meteor, or an aerolite from some other system, with a speck of organic life upon it, from which all has developed. Whatever may be the case in regard to physical life, that is absolutely true in the case of spiritual life. It all originates because this heaven-descended Christ has come down the long staircase of Incarnation, and has brought with Him into the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... the memorable burgomaster, Otto von Guericke), and at the University of Gottingen, which he entered in 1841, while in his eighteenth year. Were he attended the chemical lectures of Woehler, the discoverer of organic synthesis, and of Professor Himly, the well-known physicist, who was married to Siemens's eldest sister, Mathilde. With a year at Gottingen, during which he laid the basis of his theoretical knowledge, ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... paid for it at par in money, but who paid for it at not more than thirty cents on the dollar in road making; that of the Government directors some of them have neglected their duties and others have been interested in the transactions by which the provisions of the organic law have been evaded; that at least one of the commissioners appointed by the President has been directly bribed to betray his trust by the gift of $25,000; that the chief engineer of the road was largely ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... the evidence of the two doctors. Dr. Arthur Jones, the lady's usual medical man, who had attended her in a last very slight illness, and who had seen her in a professional capacity fairly recently, declared most emphatically that Mrs. Hazeldene suffered from no organic complaint which could possibly have been the cause of sudden death. Moreover, he had assisted Mr. Andrew Thornton, the district medical officer, in making a postmortem examination, and together ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy

... be advanced by the new methods of experimental psychology. There is, for instance, already, far-reaching agreement that the problems of artistic creation, of scientific observation, of social reform, and many similar endeavors must be acknowledged as organic parts of applied psychology. Only one group of purposes is so far surprisingly neglected in the realm of the psychological laboratory: the purposes of the economic life, the purposes of commerce and industry, of business and the market in the widest sense of the word. The question how far applied ...
— Psychology and Industrial Efficiency • Hugo Muensterberg


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