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  • adjective Of, or relating to organisms.
  • adjective Of, or relating to organicism.

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  • adjective of or relating to or belonging to an organism (considered as a whole)

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Examples

  • The organismic principle of integration is an all-embracing principle, taking in all the value-concepts in the complex and relating every concept to every other concept in an identical manner.

    David Shasha: Understanding Midrash 2010

  • The organismic principle of integration is an all-embracing principle, taking in all the value-concepts in the complex and relating every concept to every other concept in an identical manner.

    Understanding Midrash 2010

  • But we argue that if self-organization proves to be a common mechanism for the generation of adaptive order from the molecular to the organismic level, then this will greatly undermine the Darwinian claim that natural selection is the major creative agency in evolution.

    2008 September - Telic Thoughts 2008

  • The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies that the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » On Patriotism 2009

  • And who knows whether our organismic suppleness, our deep evolvability, isn't related to our mental thirst for the new, and our hope that behind the door lies the best surprise yet?

    Built in Capacity for Change is Called What? 2007

  • Scientist Frederic Clements (1916; 1928) developed the ‘organismic concept’ which recognized that communities were definable, with species grouped repeatedly and regularly in similar environmental conditions.

    Natural Community 2009

  • Transposable elements: Possible catalysts of organismic evolution.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Even in messy cases biologists are fairly successful in separating out environmental causes from genetic, or organismic, causes of differential reproduction.

    Miss Winter Solstice Scott A. Nicholson 2009

  • Transposable elements: Possible catalysts of organismic evolution.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Transposable elements: Possible catalysts of organismic evolution.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

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